Scientists have decoded the first lingulid brachiopod genome, from Lingula anatina collected at Amami Island, Japan. A new article presents the results of their analysis of over 34,000 genes ...

Brachiopod hard parts have excellent preservation potential. As a result, the Museum’s Brachiopod collection has more than 300,000 specimens, including 10,000 type and figured specimens. Collection ...

Brachiopod shells are of similar size and composition to molluscs, and show equivalent degrees of time-averaging 14, so we treat fossil brachiopod abundance distributions as accurate reflections ...

A group of scientists from Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Nagoya University, and the University of Tokyo decoded the first lingulid brachiopod genome, from ...

Rich brachiopod fossils dating back 470 million years to the Ordovician period were discovered in Zigui county, Central China’s Hubei Province. Experts suggest these fossils provide evidence for ...