Endothyra

Endothyra Temporal range: Devonian-Triassic ~392–202 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Diaphoretickes
Clade:	SAR
Phylum:	Retaria
Subphylum:	Foraminifera
Class:	†Fusulinata
Family:	†Endothyridae
Subfamily:	†Endothyrinae
Genus:	†Endothyra Phillips 1846[1]
Species
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Endothyra is an extinct genus of fusulinid belonging to the family Endothyridae.[2] Specimens of the genus have been found in Carboniferous beds in North America and many other locations in the world. It was a common and widespread rock-forming fusulinid.[3]

Species

• E. baileyi[3]
• E. bowmani Phillips 1846[4]

References

1. Phillips, J. On the remains of microscopic animals in the rocks of Yorkshire. Proceedings of the Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West-Riding of Yorkshire. August 1845: 274-302 (1846).
2. Loeblich, Alfred R.; Tappan, Helen (1984). "Suprageneric Classification of the Foraminiferida (Protozoa)". Micropaleontology. 30 (1): 1. doi:10.2307/1485456. JSTOR 1485456.
3. Scott, Harold W.; Zeller, Edward; Zeller, Doris Nodine (1947). "The Genus Endothyra". Journal of Paleontology. 21 (6): 557–562. JSTOR 1299229.
4. Harlton, B. H. (1933). "Micropaleontology of the Pennsylvanian Johns Valley shale of the Ouachita Mountains, Oklahoma, and its relationship to the Mississippian Caney shale". Journal of Paleontology. 7 (1): 3–29. JSTOR 1298118.