Beecheria
Extinct genus of brachiopod
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Beecheria is an extinct genus of brachiopod belonging to the order Terebratulida and family Beecheriidae.[1][2] Fossils of this genus have been found in Mississippian[3][4] to Permian beds in Eurasia,[4][5] Australia,[6] North America,[3] and South America.[7] The genus was part of the Levipustula fauna characteristic of cold water conditions.[7] "Nests" of Beecheria have been found in fossil low temperature hydrothermal vent communities from the early Carboniferous in Newfoundland.[8]
| Beecheria | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Brachiopoda |
| Class: | Rhynchonellata |
| Order: | Terebratulida |
| Family: | †Beecheriidae |
| Genus: | †Beecheria Hall and Clarke 1893 |
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Species
- B. angusta Netschajew 1894[5]
- B. boranelensis Peou and Engel 1979[6]
- B. chouteauensis Weller 1914[3]
- B. curva Smirnova 2009[9]
- B. elliptica Cooper and Grant 1976[10]
- B. expansa Cooper and Grant 1976[10]
- B. kargaliensis Smirnova 2007[5]
- B. lidarensis Diener 1915[4]
- B. magna Jin and Ye 1979[11]
- B. netschajewi Grigor'yeva 1967[5]
- B. samarica Smirnova 2007[5]
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