Beecheria | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Brachiopoda |
Class: | Rhynchonellata |
Order: | Terebratulida |
Family: | †Beecheriidae |
Genus: | †Beecheria Hall and Clarke 1893 |
Species | |
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Beecheria is an extinct genus of brachiopod belonging to the order Terebratulida and family Beecheriidae.[1][2] Fossils of this genus have been found in Mississippian[3][4] to Permian beds in Eurasia,[4][5] Australia,[6] North America,[3] and South America.[7] The genus was part of the Levipustula fauna characteristic of cold water conditions.[7] "Nests" of Beecheria have been found in fossil low temperature hydrothermal vent communities from the early Carboniferous in Newfoundland.[8]