Carboniferous Fossil Brachiopod Collection with 8 Species

Name: Phylum Brachiopoda - 8 species as listed below

Age: Lower Pennsylvanain

Size (25.4 mm = 1 inch):
Clockwise from upper left. Eumetria costata 3/8" (10mm), Cliothyridina sublamellosa 7/16" (11mm), Chonetes granulifer 9/16" (15mm), Rhipidonella sp. 5/8" (16mm),
Spirifer occidentalis 7/8" (22mm), Dictyoclostus portlockianus 1" (25mm), Composita sp. 1" (26mm), spiriferellina sp. 7/8" (22mm)

Location: Ely Formation, Millard County, Utah

Code: IN011

Price: $45.00 - sold

This is a diverse brachiopod collection with eight different species from the Ely Formation in Millard County, Utah, that were part of a Carboniferous reef system. Most brachiopods from this formation are badly deformed from the weight of overlying rock.
These are some of the best specimens sorted from the thousands.

The brachiopods made their first appearance in Early Cambrian, became widespread during the Ordovician with most groups going extinct at the end of the Permian. Compared with more than 12,000 species known in the fossil record, only 350 species exist today.

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