striatus: exterior, and interior with lophophore See text Delthyris Spirifer is a genus of marine brachiopods belonging to the order Spiriferida and family Spiriferidae.
Species belonging to the genus lived from the Middle Ordovician (Sandbian) through to the Late Triassic (Carnian) with a global distribution.
They were stationary epifaunal suspension feeders.
[1] As Spirifer has been described early on, since then, many species have been reassigned.
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