Acrothyra Temporal range: Miaolingian – ~
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Brachiopoda |
Genus: | †Acrothyra Matthew, 1901 |
Acrothyra gregaria is a species of gregarious brachiopod known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. 253 specimens of Acrothyra are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.5% of the community.[1]