Discinisca

Discinisca is a genus of brachiopods with fossils dating back from the Early Devonian to the Pliocene of Africa, Europe, North America, and New Zealand.

Discinisca
Temporal range:
Discinisca lamellosa, a group of old and young specimens; the largest showing the foramen in the peduncle valve; the rest showing brachial valves
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Brachiopoda
Order: Discinida
Family: Discinidae
Genus: Discinisca
Sowerby, 1822
Species
  • D. laevis (Sowerby, 1822)
  • D. lamellosa (Broderip, 1834)
  • D. lamellosa sensu d'Hondt, 1976
  • D. messi (Damián E. Pérez et al., 2023)
  • D. rikuzenensis (Hatai, 1940)
  • D. suborbicularis (Smirnova et al., 2017)
  • D. tenuis (Sowerby)

Living individuals incorporate tablets of silica into their shell.

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