Discinisca

Discinisca; Temporal range: Early Devonian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Discinisca lamellosa, a group of old and young specimens; the largest showing the foramen in the peduncle valve; the rest showing brachial valves
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Brachiopoda
Order:	Discinida
Family:	Discinidae
Genus:	Discinisca; Sowerby, 1822
Species
	D. laevis (Sowerby, 1822) ; D. lamellosa (Broderip, 1834) ; D. lamellosa sensu d'Hondt, 1976 ; D. messi (Damián E. Pérez et al., 2023) ; D. rikuzenensis (Hatai, 1940) ; D. suborbicularis (Smirnova et al., 2017) ; D. tenuis (Sowerby) ;

Discinisca is a genus of brachiopods with fossils dating back from the Early Devonian to the Pliocene of Africa, Europe, North America, and New Zealand.^[1]

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Living individuals incorporate tablets of silica into their shell.^[2]

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