Ventral view of Mucrospirifer, a fossil brachiopod, showing the characteristically wing-like shell. This Devonian specimen from Ohio is 3.5cm wide. Brachiopod hard parts have excellent preservation ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Three historical phases can be distinguished in the study of brachiopod systematics over the past 75 years. Prior to 1956, systematic ...

Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 90, No. 5 (2016), pp. 888-909 (22 pages) Systematic revision of the Late Ordovician brachiopod genera Eochonetes Reed, 1917 and Thaerodonta Wang, 1949 was conducted ...

Researchers have carried out the first detailed study of the molecular mechanisms responsible for formation of the brachiopod shell. Comparison with shell synthesis in other groups reveals the deep ...

The mechanism that allows a species of brachiopod to change its shell from rigid to soft and flexible has been revealed, bringing with it new possibilities in the field of material sciences. A recent ...

Researchers have shed new light on the evolution of biomineralized columnar pillars in the shells of small marine shellfish called phosphatic-shelled or linguliform brachiopods. The research, ...

Rich brachiopod fossils dating back 470 million years to the Ordovician period were discovered in Zigui county, Central China's Hubei Province. Experts suggest these fossils provide evidence for ...

Fossils from the Cincinnati area are renowned for their abundance, variety and ease of collecting. The animals that produced those fossils lived at the end of the Ordovician Period 450 million years ...

Brachiopod curator Zoë Hughes celebrates the life and work of one of the Museum's great pioneering geologists. Dr Helen Muir-Wood was once Curator of Brachiopods at the Museum, which is the post that ...

Researchers of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have carried out the first detailed study of the molecular mechanisms responsible for formation of the brachiopod shell. Comparison with ...