Beecheria Explained

Beecheria is an extinct genus of brachiopod belonging to the order Terebratulida and family Beecheriidae.^{[1] [2]} Fossils of this genus have been found in Mississippian to Permian beds in Eurasia, Australia,^[3] North America, and South America.^[4] The genus was part of the Levipustula fauna characteristic of cold water conditions.^[4] "Nests" of Beecheria have been found in fossil low temperature hydrothermal vent communities from the early Carboniferous in Newfoundland.^[5]

Species

• B. angusta Netschajew 1894^[6]
• B. boranelensis Peou and Engel 1979^[3]
• B. chouteauensis Weller 1914^[7]
• B. curva Smirnova 2009^[8]
• B. elliptica Cooper and Grant 1976^[9]
• B. expansa Cooper and Grant 1976^[9]
• B. kargaliensis Smirnova 2007^[6]
• B. lidarensis Diener 1915^[10]
• B. magna Jin and Ye 1979^[11]
• B. netschajewi Grigor'yeva 1967^[6]
• B. samarica Smirnova 2007^[6]

Notes and References

1. Book: A. . Williams . C.H.C. . Brunton . S.J. . Carlson . P.G. . Baker . J.L. . Carter . G.B. . Curry . A.S. . Dagys . R. . Gourvennec . H.F. . Hou . Y.G. . Jin . J.G. . Johnson . D.E. . Lee . D.I. . MacKinnon . P.R. . Racheboeuf . T.N. . Smirnova . D.L. . Sun . 2006 . Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part H, Brachiopoda. Volume 5: Rhynchonelliformea . 1689–2320.
2. J.J. . Sepkoski . 2002 . A compendium of fossil marine animal genera . Bulletins of American Paleontology . 363 . 1–560.
3. Peou . S. . Engel . B.A. . A Carboniferous fauna from Rawdon Vale, New South Wales . Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology . 1 January 1979 . 3 . 2 . 141–157 . 10.1080/03115517908619092. 1979Alch....3..141P .
4. Cisterna . G.A. . Sterren . A.F. . 2008 . Late Carboniferous Levipustula fauna in the Leoncito Formation, San Juan province, Argentine Precordillera: biostratigraphical and palaeoclimatological implications . Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria . 120 . 1 . 137–147 . 11 January 2022.
5. von Bitter . Peter H. . Scott . Steven D. . Schenk . Paul E. . Early Carboniferous low-temperature hydrothermal vent communities from Newfoundland . Nature . March 1990 . 344 . 6262 . 145–148 . 10.1038/344145a0. 1990Natur.344..145V .
6. Smirnova . T. N. . Permian terebratulids of Eurasia: Morphology, systematics, and phylogeny . Paleontological Journal . October 2007 . 41 . 7 . 707–813 . 10.1134/S0031030107070015. 2007PalJ...41..707S .
7. J. L. . Carter . 1967 . Mississippian brachiopods from the Chappel Limestone of central Texas . Bulletins of American Paleontology . 53 . 238 . 249–488 .
8. Smirnova . T. N. . The ontogeny of the Late Permian terebratulids of the family Beecheriidae Smirnova (Brachiopoda) . Paleontological Journal . March 2009 . 43 . 2 . 142–152 . 10.1134/S003103010902004X. 2009PalJ...43..142S .
9. Cooper . G. A. . Grant . Richard E. . Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, V . Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology . 1976 . 24 . 1–551 . 10.5479/si.00810266.24.1.
10. Garzanti . Eduardo . Angiolini . Lucia . Brunton . Howard . Sciunnach . Dario . Balini . Marco . The Bashkirian "Fenestella Shales" and the Moscovian "Chaetetid Shales" of the Tethys Himalaya (South Tibet, Nepal and India) . Journal of Asian Earth Sciences . April 1998 . 16 . 2–3 . 119–141 . 10.1016/S0743-9547(98)00006-3. 1998JAESc..16..119G .
11. Book: Y. G. . Jin . S. L. . Ye . 1979 . Permian brachiopod names . Paleontological atlas of northwest China, Qinghai . 1 . 70–131.