Pugnoides
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| Pugnoides Temporal range: | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Brachiopoda |
| Class: | Rhynchonellata |
| Order: | Rhynchonellida |
| Family: | †Petasmariidae |
| Genus: | †Pugnoides Weller, 1910[1] |
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Pugnoides is an extinct genus of brachiopod belonging to the order Rhynchonellida and family Petasmariidae.[2] Specimens have been found in Devonian[3] to Permian[4] beds in North America,[5] Asia,[6] Europe, western Australia,[7] New Zealand,[4]and New Zealand.[4] The genus was particularly widespread in the Visean (Lower Mississippian).[7]