affinities of tommotiids: they are now being regarded as stem-group brachiopods. One crucial fossil linking the tommotiids with brachiopods is Micrina...

Articulate brachiopods have toothed hinges and simple, vertically oriented opening and closing muscles. Conversely, inarticulate brachiopods have weak...

Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes...

and radiation of species Evolution of reptiles – Origin and diversification of reptiles through geologic time Evolution of brachiopods – The origin and...

The evolution of cetaceans is thought to have begun in the Indian subcontinent from even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla) 50 million years ago (mya) and to...

mainly fossils. In biology, evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary...

The evolution of the molluscs is the way in which the Mollusca, one of the largest groups of invertebrate animals, evolved. This phylum includes gastropods...

The most recent understanding of the evolution of insects is based on studies of the following branches of science: molecular biology, insect morphology...

that they have diverged through the process of evolution from a common ancestor. Only a very small percentage of species have been identified: one estimate...

Zygatrypa Zygospira Zygospirella List of brachiopod species Taxonomy of the Brachiopoda Evolution of brachiopods Moore, R.C. (1965). Brachiopoda. Treatise...

mollusk-like brachiopods and the great coral reefs, were still common. The Late Devonian extinction occurred at the beginning of the last phase of the Devonian...

(2019). A study on the evolution of the body size of brachiopods from the Late Permian to the Middle Triassic, as indicated by brachiopod specimens from South...

was probably not as long-lasting as once thought; study of oxygen isotopes in fossil brachiopods shows that it was probably no longer than 0.5 to 1.5 million...

Revolution. As a result of increased predation pressure on top of heightened competition with bivalves, brachiopods became a minor component of most marine faunas...

different species of brachiopods independently assumed a similar morphology, and presumably mode of life, to species that had lived millions of years before...

Scotland. She carried out research into brachiopods. She took her degree in chemistry at the University of Aberdeen, and her DPhil at Somerville College...

taxonomic composition, ecology, and biodiversity of Silurian brachiopods mirroring Ordovician ones. Brachiopods that survived the LOME developed novel adaptations...

a group of shells that, whilst originally aligned to the monoplacophoran ancestry of the cephalopods, have been reinterpreted as brachiopods. Hyoliths...

molluscs, annelids, brachiopods, nemerteans, bryozoa and entoprocts. The molluscs, the second-largest animal phylum by number of described species, includes...

bryozoans, and brachiopods. Lophotrochozoa was defined in 1995 as the "last common ancestor of the three traditional lophophorate taxa (brachiopods, bryozoans...

phoronids and brachiopods are deuterostomes: While deuterostomes have three coelomic cavities, lophophorates such as phoronids and brachiopods have only two...

Zezina, 2013 in Bitner et al. (2013) List of brachiopod genera List of brachiopod species Evolution of brachiopods Emig C. C., Bitner M. A. & Álvarez F.,...

with molluscs and brachiopods in another superphylum, Lophotrochozoa. If the Ecdysozoa hypothesis is correct, then segmentation of arthropods and annelids...

the rest of the Paleozoic, such as articulate brachiopods, cephalopods, and crinoids. Articulate brachiopods, in particular, largely replaced trilobites...

ISBN 978-0-471-05272-2. Applies statistics to the evolution of sponges, cnidarians, worms, brachiopods, bryozoa, mollusks, and arthropods. Shuhai Xiao and...

compositions of brachiopod shell calcite: Implications for the isotopic evolution of Paleozoic oceans" (PDF). Tillman, John R. (1964). "Variation in Species of Mucrospirifer...

S.B.; Balavoine, G. (June 1999). "Hox genes in brachiopods and priapulids and protostome evolution". Nature. 399 (6738): 772–6. Bibcode:1999Natur.399...

of a fish kill, probably due a sudden inflow of freshwater from a large storm. They were found associated with a large number of lingulid brachiopods...

Convergent evolution—the repeated evolution of similar traits in multiple lineages which all ancestrally lack the trait—is rife in nature, as illustrated...

foraminifera, bivalves, cnidarians, and especially brachiopods, for which the TOAE represented one of the most severe extinctions in their evolutionary...