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Askepasma

Wikipedia Abstract

Askepasma is an extinct brachiopod which existed in what is now Australia and southern China during the Lower Cambrian. It was described by Laurie in 1986, and the type species is A. toddense. Other species are A. transversalis, described from Guizhou, China by Peng et al. in 2010, and A. saproconcha, which was described by Timothy P. Topper et al. in 2012. A. saproconcha is the oldest known southern Australian brachiopod from the lower Cambrian.
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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0