Talk:Brachiopod
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As should be obvious, I winged this article based on some knowledge of paleontology and not a whole lot more. Anyone who actually knows something about brachiopods shoud feel free to fix it. Anything that looks not quite right may, in fact, be not quite right.
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[edit] Classification
The big ol' table in the Taxonomy section was compiled using Williams, Carlson, and Brunton (2000). The Treatise is pretty much the definitive source for invertebrate paleontology, so I would only change the table if you have a very good reason (which of course you might!) Gwimpey 22:20, Jul 16, 2004 (UTC)
Added text from article I originally wrote in 1998 and published it on the Web....
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Dlloyd 00:40, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Pictures needed
If anyone has some brachiopod pictures to contribute, that would be great. I can't find any on the net that are obviously not under copyright protection. Drawings or photos of brachiopod fossils, shells, or live animals would all be good. Gwimpey 18:46, Aug 16, 2004 (UTC)
Added two brachiopod photographs. Dlloyd 22:46, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Great fossil pictures! Anyone out there have some good live animal pictures? Gwimpey 19:35, Aug 24, 2004 (UTC)
Ack! I hope that User:Dlloyd does come back. His pictures are marvelous. Gwimpey 22:52, Oct 19, 2004 (UTC)
- I found a picture of living brachs! Finally! Thanks to the USGS. Gwimpey 04:33, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Category:Paleozoic
I removed this category since Brachiopods still exist today. It is just that Brachiopods were exceptionally abundant in Palaezoic times. — Richie 09:45, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Wren's Nest Silurian Brachipods
There are lots of brachiopods specimens on Wren's Nest Fossils from the Silurian outcrop in Dudley, England. These are in a series of pdf files because jpegs images are too large for a quick download. --Geoff Broughton 21:24, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Resserella
Hi as part of the WP:HOTlist project of missing articles I noticed that Britannica has an article on Resserella (http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9063286?query=Resserella&ct=eb) but we don't mention that extinct species here. Does anyone know why? I expect we call it by a different name? Many thanks, Pcb21 Pete 18:53, 9 April 2006 (UTC).
[edit] Request for cleanup
The sentence "Unlike bivalves, which (if symmetrical) have a plane of symmetry between the left and right shell, brachiopods shells (if symmetrical) have a plane of bilaterally symmetric at right angles to the plane between the top and bottom shells, which usually differ in shape" (in the first paragraph) seems ungrammatical, and may benefit from clarification. 69.140.157.138 06:15, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
- I tried to improve it. See what you think. --Geologyguy 14:50, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
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- Looks good to me, much more readable; however, as I have no knowledge of the field, I am not qualified to comment about whether the improved version is truly better or not. 68.50.203.109 04:25, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
