{{Short description|Extinct genus of brachiopods}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = Silurian | taxon = Dolerorthis | authority = Schuchert & Cooper 1931<ref name=AJS1931>{{Cite journal|last1=Schuchert |first1=C. |last2=Cooper |first2=G. A. |year=1931 |title=Synopsis of the brachiopod genera of the suborders Orthoidea and Pentameroidea, with notes on the Telotremata |journal=American Journal of Science |volume=s5–22 |issue=129 |pages=241–251 |doi=10.2475/ajs.s5-22.129.241 |bibcode=1931AmJS...22..241S }}</ref> | type_species = {{extinct}}'''''Orthis interplicata'''''<ref name=AJS1931 /> | type_species_authority = Foerste, 1909 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = *{{extinct}}'''''Dolerorthis interplicata''''' <br/><small>(Foerste, 1909)</small> | synonyms = *''Orthis interplicata'' <br/><small>Foerste, 1909</small> }}
'''''Dolerorthis''''' is an extinct genus of hesperorthid brachiopod.<ref name=EJES>{{Cite journal|last1=Paškevičius |first1=J. |last2=Hints |first2=L. |year=2016 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303354786|title=New Early Katian species of Leptestiidae and Hesperorthidae (Brachiopoda) from Lithuania |journal=Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences |volume=65 |issue=2 |pages=75–84 |doi=10.3176/earth.2016.05 |doi-access=free }}</ref> The type species of this genus, ''D. interplicata'', was described from the Silurian (Telychian) Osgood Formation (Indiana, United States).<ref name=EJES /> Other species belonging to this genus are known from the Ordovician and Silurian of Europe,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Cocks |first=L. R. M. |year=2008 |title=A revised review of British Lower Palaeozoic brachiopods |journal=Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society |volume=161 |issue=629 |pages=1–276 |doi=10.1080/25761900.2022.12131809 |s2cid=250645359 }}</ref><ref name=EJES /><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Colmenar |first1=J. |last2=Pereira |first2=S. |last3=Pires |first3=M. |last4=Marques da Silva |first4=C. |last5=Sá |first5=A. A. |last6=Young |first6=T. P. |year=2017 |title=A Kralodvorian (upper Katian, Upper Ordovician) benthic association from the Ferradosa Formation (central Portugal) and its significance for the redefinition and subdivision of the Kralodvorian Stage |journal=Bulletin of Geosciences |volume=92 |issue=4 |pages=443–464 |doi=10.3140/bull.geosci.1643 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Kazakhstan,<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Popov |first1=L. E. |last2=Cocks |first2=L. R. M. |last3=Nikitin |first3=I. F. |year=2002 |title=Upper Ordovician brachiopods from the Anderken Formation, Kazakhstan: their ecology and systematics |journal=Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Geology Series |volume=58 |issue=1 |pages=13–79 |doi=10.1017/S0968046202000025 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/140860 }}</ref> China<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Rong |first1=J. |last2=Huang |first2=B. |last3=Zhan |first3=R.-B. |last4=Harper |first4=D. A. T. |year=2013 |title=Latest Ordovician and earliest Silurian brachiopods succeeding the ''Hirnantia'' fauna in South-east China |journal=Special Papers in Palaeontology |volume=90 |pages=1–142 }}</ref> and Argentina.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Benedetto |first1=J. L. |last2=Cocks |first2=L. R. |year=2009 |title=Early Silurian (Rhuddanian) brachiopods from the Argentine Precordillera and their biogeographic affinities |journal=Ameghiniana |volume=46 |issue=2 |pages=241–253 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287769895 }}</ref> It was roughly {{convert|4|cm|in}} across.
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