page_title: Thecideida
hierarchical_section_title: Thecideida
caption_attribution_description: English: Thecidium mediterraneum (=Lacazella mediterranea); Thecideidae; A. natural size: B. section through shell (magnified)
context_page_description: Thecideida is an order of cryptic articulate brachiopods characterized by their small size and habit of cementing their ventral valves to hard substrates such as shells, rocks and carbonate hardgrounds. Thecideides first appear in the Triassic and are common today.
context_section_description: Thecideida is an order of cryptic articulate brachiopods characterized by their small size and habit of cementing their ventral valves to hard substrates such as shells, rocks and carbonate hardgrounds. Thecideides first appear in the Triassic (Jaecks and Carlson, 2001) and are common today (Lüter, 2005; Lüter et al., 2007).
caption: Thecidium mediterraneum, A. natural size: B. section through shell (magnified)
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