Kallirhynchia
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| Kallirhynchia Temporal range: Jurassic | |
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| Fossil of Kallirhynchia major from France, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Brachiopoda |
| Class: | Rhynchonellata |
| Order: | Rhynchonellida |
| Family: | †Wellerellidae |
| Genus: | †Kallirhynchia Buckman, 1917 |
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Kallirhynchia is an extinct genus of brachiopods found in Jurassic strata in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, India and Uzbekistan. It was a stationary epifaunal suspension feeder.[1]
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