Echinoconchidae
Echinoconchidae is an extinct family of brachiopods which lived from the Lower Carboniferous to Upper Permian periods in marine habitats. Currently, four subfamilies are assigned to it, though the evolutionary relationships between them and the family Productidae have been heavily debated for the better part of the 20th Century.
| Echinoconchidae Temporal range: | |
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| Fossils of the echinoconchid Echinoconchus (13-26) along with other brachiopods | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Brachiopoda |
| Class: | †Strophomenata |
| Order: | †Productida |
| Superfamily: | †Echinoconchoidea |
| Family: | †Echinoconchidae Stehli, 1954 |
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