Directory of Brachiopoda Resources

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The phylum Brachiopoda, or Lamp Shells, contains about 300 living species and about 12,000 extinct species found in the fossil record. Superficially they resemble bivalve molluscs like the cockle, but their internal basic structure is very different. Brachiopods are suspension feeding, marine, benthic lophophorates in two higher taxa, Inarticulata and Articulata.

Resources in This Category

• Brachiopoda

  http://www.tolweb.org/Brachiopoda/2494
  Photographs of some live lamp shells and some fossil specimens.

• EuroBrachNet

  http://paleopolis.rediris.es/BrachNet/
  Directory of the specialists working on brachiopods, recent publications, and systematics and taxonomy of the Brachiopoda.

• Introduction to the Brachiopoda

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/brachiopoda/brachiopoda.html
  Introduction to the Brachiopods, commonly known as lampshells.

• Systematics of the Brachiopoda

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/brachiopoda/brachiopodasy.html
  Information from the University of California Paleontology Museum.

• The Phylum Brachiopoda

  http://www.earthlife.net/inverts/brachiopoda.html
  An introduction to the lamp shells including their characteristics, biology, classification and ecology.

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