Rafinesquina

Rafinesquina
Temporal range:
Rafinesquina ponderosa from the Excello South Outcrop near the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana tristate area
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Brachiopoda
Class: Strophomenata
Order: Strophomenida
Family: Rafinesquinidae
Subfamily: Rafinesquininae
Genus: Rafinesquina
Clarke and Hall, 1892
Type species
Leptaena alternata
Conrad, 1838
Species

See Species

Rafinesquina is an extinct genus of large brachiopod that existed from the Darriwilian to the Ludlow epoch.

The genus was named in honor of polymath Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz.