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They have two shells or valves that are often composed of the mineral calcite calcium carbonate Brachiopods have a coiled feeding organ called a lophophore that is protected by its valves There are two major divisions Classes of brachiopods the inar. Arthropods Bryozoans Macrofossils Invertebrates IG1(O8S ROC.S Tuff Basaltic flows Banded igneous rock Granitic Rock Porphyritic rock Ore M(TAMORP+IC ROC.S 4uartzite Schist Folded schist Folded Gneiss  . Kingdom. . Kingdom. : . Animalia. Phylum. . Phylum. : . Arthropoda. Class. . Class. : . Insecta. Order. . Order. : . Coleoptera. (beetles). Family. . Family. : . Carabidae. Genus. . At night they use their natural jet propulsion to maneuver up over 325 meters to feed. . Why an “explosion”?. What were conditions like at the end of the . Proterozoic. ?. . Supercontinent was breaking up. metabolic exchanges with the environment (food and the direction lophophore can deduced directly construction must the current cavity governs the arrangement and gonads Laqueus, Hemithiris from San tr 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 www.Fossils-facts-and-finds.com ACROSS 1 a cousin of the brachiopods 6 the oldest living order of brachiopods 7 a tube for gather Trond Reitan. CEES, University of Oslo. trond.reitan@ibv.uio.no. Are brachiopods and bivalves ships that pass in the night?. Gould & Calloway 1980: . Clams and brachiopods - ships . that pass . in the night. . Marko Manojlovic . UC Santa Cruz. Brachiopods vs Bivalves. “Every zoologist acknowledges the inferiority of the . Bryozoa. and the Brachiopods when compared with the [Bivalves]….Now if any fact is well established in Paleontology, it is the . Marko Manojlovic. UC Santa Cruz. Brachiopods vs Bivalves. “. Every zoologist acknowledges the inferiority of the . Bryozoa. and the Brachiopods when compared with the . [. B. ivalves. ]….Now if any fact is well established in .