{{Short description|Extinct genus of brachiopods}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = Miaolingian – ~{{Fossil range|{{period start|Burgess Shale}}}} | taxon = Paterina | authority = Beecher, 1891 }}
'''''Paterina''''' is a genus of brachiopods known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. 18 specimens of ''Paterina'' are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.03% of the community.<ref name=Caron2006>{{cite journal|last1=Caron |first1=Jean-Bernard|last2=Jackson |first2=Donald A.|title=Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale|journal=PALAIOS |volume=21 |issue=5 |pages=451–65|date=October 2006|doi=10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R|jstor=20173022|bibcode=2006Palai..21..451C |s2cid=53646959 }}</ref>
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== External links == * {{Cite web|date=2011|title=''Paterina zenobia''|work=Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery|publisher=Virtual Museum of Canada|url=http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/en/fossil-gallery/view-species.php?id=97|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112025257/http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/en/fossil-gallery/view-species.php?id=97|archive-date=2020-11-12|url-status=dead|access-date=2023-01-21}}
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Category:Burgess Shale fossils Category:Prehistoric brachiopod genera Category:Paleozoic life of Nova Scotia Category:Cambrian genus extinctions Category:Brachiopods
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