Brachiopods (/ˈbrækioʊˌpɒd/), phylum Brachiopoda, are a phylum of trochozoan animals that have hard "valves" (shells) on the upper and lower surfaces...

Lingula is a genus of brachiopods within the class Lingulata. Lingula or forms very close in appearance have existed possibly since the Cambrian. Like...

Calloria is a genus of brachiopods belonging to the family Terebratellidae. The species of this genus are found in New Zealand. Species: Calloria inconspicua...

The origin of the brachiopods is uncertain; they either arose from reduction of a multi-plated tubular organism, or from the folding of a slug-like organism...

Brachiopod Mountain was named by James F. Porter for the fossil brachiopods found in the Devonian limestone of the mountain. It is located in the Slate...

Crania is an extinct genus of brachiopods that lived during the Upper Cretaceous. Crania has small (up to 2 centimetres or 0.79 inches in diameter) circular...

A study aiming to reconstruct the life cycle of the Early Cambrian brachiopods is published by Madison & Kuzmina (2019). A study on the anatomy of plectambonitoid...

Fosteria is a monotypic genus of brachiopods belonging to the family Terebratellidae. The only species is Fosteria spinosa. The species is found in Antarctica...

Pustula is an extinct genus of brachiopods which lived during the Carboniferous period. It is the type genus of the subfamily Pustulinae. Its fossils...

Craniata is a class of brachiopods originating in the Cambrian period and still extant today. It is the only class within the subphylum Craniiformea,...