Cyrtospirifer verneuili
Appearance
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Cyrtospirifer verneuili | |
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Fossil specimen of Cyrtospirifer verneuili from Namur (Belgium), Upper Devonian | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Brachiopoda |
Class: | Rhynchonellata |
Order: | †Spiriferida |
Family: | †Cyrtospiriferidae |
Genus: | †Cyrtospirifer |
Species: | †C. verneuili
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Binomial name | |
†Cyrtospirifer verneuili (Murchison, 1840)
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Cyrtospirifer verneuili, also called Spirifer verneuili, is an extinct species of brachiopods. The fossils are present in the Upper Devonian.[1]
In Cornwall they have the vernacular name Delabole butterfly, from the appearance of flattened forms in the slates at Delabole.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ uBio, ed. (2013). "Cyrtospirifer verneuili".
- ^ Barton, R. M. (1964). "III - The Killas of North and East Cornwall". An Introduction to the Geology of Cornwall. Truro: D. Bradford Barton Ltd. pp. 90–91.