''Meristina'' is an
extinct
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
genus of
brachiopods that lived from the
Late Ordovician to the
Middle Devonian of
Asia,
Europe, and
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
. ''Meristina'' had a smooth convex shell with a one-inch diameter.
Sources
* ''Fossils'' (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 85)
External links
''Meristina''in the
Paleobiology Database
Spiriferida
Prehistoric brachiopod genera
Ordovician brachiopods
Silurian brachiopods
Devonian brachiopods
Paleozoic animals of Asia
Prehistoric animals of Europe
Paleozoic brachiopods of North America
Late Ordovician first appearances
Middle Devonian genus extinctions
Paleozoic life of Ontario
Paleozoic life of British Columbia
Paleozoic life of Manitoba
Paleozoic life of New Brunswick
Paleozoic life of the Northwest Territories
Paleozoic life of Nova Scotia
Paleozoic life of Nunavut
Paleozoic life of Quebec
Paleozoic life of Yukon
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