Trigonotretidae
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| Trigonotretidae Temporal range: [1] | |
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| Fossil of Neospirifer ravana from Greenland, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Brachiopoda |
| Class: | Rhynchonellata |
| Order: | †Spiriferida |
| Suborder: | †Spiriferidina |
| Superfamily: | †Spiriferoidea |
| Family: | †Trigonotretidae Schuchert, 1893 |
Trigonotretidae is an extinct family of articulate brachiopods belonging to the order Spiriferida.
These stationary epifaunal suspension feeders lived in the Carboniferous and Permian periods, from 360.7 to 252.3 Ma.[1]