{{Short description|Extinct genus of brachiopods}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic Taxobox | fossil_range = middle Silurian - early Devonian | taxon = Eospirifer | authority = Schuchert, 1913 | display_parents = 5 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = *''Eospirifer radiatus'' *''Eospirifer dasifiliformis'' *''Eospirifer lachrymose'' *''Eospirifer praecursor'' }}
'''''Eospirifer''''' is a genus of extinct brachiopod in the class Rhynchonellata (Articulata) and the order Spiriferida. Their fossils occur most commonly in marine calcareous, microbialitic mudstones with extensive mudcracks or shelly packstones, generally mid-Silurian to early-Devonian in age.
==Select species== *''Eospirifer radiatus''<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Villas |first1=E. |last2=Cocks |first2=L. R. M. |title=The First Early Silurian Brachiopod Fauna from the Iberian Peninsula |journal=Journal of Paleontology |date=1996 |volume=70 |issue=4 |pages=571–588 |doi=10.1017/S0022336000023544 |jstor=1306520 |bibcode=1996JPal...70..571V |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1306520 |issn=0022-3360|url-access=subscription }}</ref>thumb|Eospirifer radiatus|250px|right *''Eospirifer dasifiliformis'' *''Eospirifer lachrymose'' *''Eospirifer praecursor''<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Zhan |first1=RenBin |last2=Jin |first2=JiSuo |last3=Liang |first3=Yan |last4=Meng |first4=LingKai |title=Evolution and paleogeography of Eospirifer (Spiriferida, Brachiopoda) in Late Ordovician and Silurian |journal=Science China Earth Sciences |date=September 2012 |volume=55 |issue=9 |pages=1427–1444 |doi=10.1007/s11430-012-4458-4|bibcode=2012ScChD..55.1427Z }}</ref>
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Category:Silurian brachiopods Category:Devonian brachiopods Category:Prehistoric brachiopod genera Category:Paleozoic brachiopods of Asia Category:Silurian first appearances Category:Early Devonian genus extinctions Category:Fossils of Georgia (U.S. state) Category:Paleontology in New Hampshire Category:Paleozoic life of Ontario Category:Paleozoic life of the Northwest Territories Category:Paleozoic life of Quebec
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