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Pentamerida logo #21000 Pentamerida is an order of biconvex, impunctate shelled, articulate brachiopods that are found in marine sedimentary rocks that range from the Middle Cambrian through the Devonian. Pentamerids are characterized by a short hinge line where the two valves articulate, inner areas above the hinge line that slope inwardly from the beak of each valve, a...
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Pentamerida

Pentamerida logo #21003(from the article `Silurian Period`) The Pentamerus community was an early Silurian community dominated by the large-shelled brachiopod (lamp shell) of the species Pentamerus oblongus. ... ...(with rods of calcite), rarely impunctate; more than 400 genera; Early Ordovician (490,000,000 years ago) to Early Jurassic (180,000,000 years ......
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