# Beecheria

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{{Short description|Extinct genus of brachiopod}}
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| fossil_range = [Carboniferous](/source/Carboniferous)-[Permian](/source/Permian)<br/>~{{fossil range|361|254}}
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| taxon = Beecheria
| authority = Hall and Clarke 1893
| subdivision_ranks = Species
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| subdivision = See text
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'''''Beecheria''''' is an [extinct](/source/extinct) [genus](/source/genus) of [brachiopod](/source/brachiopod) belonging to the order [Terebratulida](/source/Terebratulida) and family [Beecheriidae](/source/Beecheriidae).<ref name=WilliamsEtal2006>{{cite book |first1=A. |last1=Williams |first2=C.H.C. |last2=Brunton |first3=S.J. |last3=Carlson |first4=P.G. |last4=Baker |first5=J.L. |last5=Carter |first6=G.B. |last6=Curry |first7=A.S. |last7=Dagys |first8=R. |last8=Gourvennec |first9=H.F. |last9=Hou |first10=Y.G. |last10=Jin |first11=J.G. |last11=Johnson |first12=D.E. |last12=Lee |first13=D.I. |last13=MacKinnon |first14=P.R. |last14=Racheboeuf |first15=T.N. |last15=Smirnova |first16=D.L. |last16=Sun |year=2006 |title=Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part H, Brachiopoda. Volume 5: Rhynchonelliformea |pages=1689–2320}}</ref><ref name=Sepkoski2002>{{cite journal |first1=J.J. |last1=Sepkoski |year=2002 |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=363 |pages=1–560}}</ref> Fossils of this genus have been found in [Mississippian](/source/Mississippian_(geology))<ref name=Carter1967/><ref name=GarzantiEtal1998/> to [Permian](/source/Permian) beds in Eurasia,<ref name=GarzantiEtal1998/><ref name="Smirnova2007"/> Australia,<ref name="PeouEngel1979">{{cite journal |last1=Peou |first1=S. |last2=Engel |first2=B.A. |title=A Carboniferous fauna from Rawdon Vale, New South Wales |journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology |date=1 January 1979 |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=141–157 |doi=10.1080/03115517908619092|bibcode=1979Alch....3..141P }}</ref> North America,<ref name=Carter1967/> and South America.<ref name=CisternaSterren2008>{{cite journal |last1=Cisterna |first1=G.A. |last2=Sterren |first2=A.F. |year=2008 |title=Late Carboniferous Levipustula fauna in the Leoncito Formation, San Juan province, Argentine Precordillera: biostratigraphical and palaeoclimatological implications |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria |volume=120 |number=1 |pages=137–147 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271442024 |access-date=11 January 2022}}</ref> The genus was part of the ''[Levipustula](/source/Levipustula)'' fauna characteristic of cold water conditions.<ref name=CisternaSterren2008/> "Nests" of ''Beecheria'' have been found in fossil low temperature [hydrothermal vent](/source/hydrothermal_vent) communities from the early [Carboniferous](/source/Carboniferous) in Newfoundland.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=von Bitter |first1=Peter H. |last2=Scott |first2=Steven D. |last3=Schenk |first3=Paul E. |title=Early Carboniferous low-temperature hydrothermal vent communities from Newfoundland |journal=Nature |date=March 1990 |volume=344 |issue=6262 |pages=145–148 |doi=10.1038/344145a0|bibcode=1990Natur.344..145V }}</ref>

== Species ==
*''B. angusta'' <small>Netschajew 1894</small><ref name="Smirnova2007">{{cite journal |last1=Smirnova |first1=T. N. |title=Permian terebratulids of Eurasia: Morphology, systematics, and phylogeny |journal=Paleontological Journal |date=October 2007 |volume=41 |issue=7 |pages=707–813 |doi=10.1134/S0031030107070015|bibcode=2007PalJ...41..707S }}</ref>
*''B. boranelensis'' <small>Peou and Engel 1979</small><ref name="PeouEngel1979"/>
*''B. chouteauensis'' <small>Weller 1914</small><ref name=Carter1967>{{cite journal |first1=J. L. |last1=Carter |year=1967 |title=Mississippian brachiopods from the Chappel Limestone of central Texas |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=53 |number=238 |pages=249–488 }}</ref>
*''B. curva'' <small>Smirnova 2009</small><ref name="Smirnova2009">{{cite journal |last1=Smirnova |first1=T. N. |title=The ontogeny of the Late Permian terebratulids of the family Beecheriidae Smirnova (Brachiopoda) |journal=Paleontological Journal |date=March 2009 |volume=43 |issue=2 |pages=142–152 |doi=10.1134/S003103010902004X|bibcode=2009PalJ...43..142S }}</ref>
*''B. elliptica'' <small>Cooper and Grant 1976</small><ref name="CooperGrant1976">{{cite journal |last1=Cooper |first1=G. A. |last2=Grant |first2=Richard E. |title=Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, V |journal=Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology |date=1976 |issue=24 |pages=1–551 |doi=10.5479/si.00810266.24.1}}</ref>
*''B. expansa'' <small>Cooper and Grant 1976</small><ref name="CooperGrant1976"/>
*''B. kargaliensis'' <small>Smirnova 2007</small><ref name="Smirnova2007"/>
*''B. lidarensis'' <small>Diener 1915</small><ref name=GarzantiEtal1998>{{cite journal |last1=Garzanti |first1=Eduardo |last2=Angiolini |first2=Lucia |last3=Brunton |first3=Howard |last4=Sciunnach |first4=Dario |last5=Balini |first5=Marco |title=The Bashkirian "Fenestella Shales" and the Moscovian "Chaetetid Shales" of the Tethys Himalaya (South Tibet, Nepal and India) |journal=Journal of Asian Earth Sciences |date=April 1998 |volume=16 |issue=2–3 |pages=119–141 |doi=10.1016/S0743-9547(98)00006-3|bibcode=1998JAESc..16..119G }}</ref>
*''B. magna'' <small>Jin and Ye 1979</small><ref name=JinYe1979>{{cite book |first1=Y. G. |last1=Jin |first2=S. L. |last2=Ye |year=1979 |chapter=Permian brachiopod names |title=Paleontological atlas of northwest China, Qinghai |volume=1 |pages=70–131}}</ref>
*''B. netschajewi'' <small>Grigor'yeva 1967</small><ref name="Smirnova2007"/>
*''B. samarica'' <small>Smirnova 2007</small><ref name="Smirnova2007"/>

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