Fossil group

Productid brachiopods

Brachiopods · Devonian – Permian

Spiny, extinct brachiopods of the late Palaeozoic with one strongly convex valve and a lid-like other. Many anchored to the sea floor by their spines; they swarmed on Carboniferous–Permian shelves and vanished in the end-Permian extinction.

A broad fossil group rather than a single taxon — the units below record it among their fauna or flora.