{"id":2364,"date":"2013-11-19T15:43:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T20:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/?page_id=2364"},"modified":"2017-06-03T14:05:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T18:05:53","slug":"craniata","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/brachiopoda\/craniata\/","title":{"rendered":"Craniata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Classification<\/strong><br \/>\nPhylum: <a title=\"Brachiopoda\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/brachiopoda\/\"> Brachiopoda<\/a><br \/>\nClass: Craniata (Williams &#038; others, 1996)<br \/>\nCincinnatian Orders: <a title=\"Craniida\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/brachiopoda\/craniata\/craniida\/\"> Craniida<\/a>, <a title=\"Craniopsida\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/brachiopoda\/craniata\/craniopsida\/\"> Craniopsida<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Geologic Range<\/strong><br \/>\nLower Cambrian, Middle Cambrian, Ordovician &#8211; Holocene<\/p>\n<p><strong>Common Paleoecology<\/strong><br \/>\nCraniata is an extinct class of stationary, epifaunal suspension feeders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Characteristics of the Class<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Calcitic or Aragonitic<\/li>\n<li>Free lying or encrusting<\/li>\n<li>Laminar (tabular) secondary layers<\/li>\n<li>Normally pinnate and containing gonads<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[accordions title=&#8221;&#8221; disabled=&#8221;false&#8221; active=&#8221;1&#8243; autoheight=&#8221;false&#8221; collapsible=&#8221;true&#8221;] [accordion title=&#8221;Published Descriptions&#8221;]<br \/>\n<em>Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part H, Vol. 2 (2000)<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brachiopods with calcitic or possibly aragonitic inarticulated shells with laminar (tabular) secondary layers; posterior body wall complete, inner mantle lobes not developed at valve margins, pedicle not developed, shell free lying or with encrusting ventral valve cemented by larval epithelium; muscle system with a single pair of internal oblique and with paired outside lateral muscles attached anteriorly to the body wall; alimentary tract more or less axial with anus medially on posterior body wall; lophophore initially with median tentacle lost during growth, tentacles in double row in postrocholophous growth stages only; nervous system in base of epidermis with paired subenteric ganglia; mantle canal systems with <em>vascula terminalia<\/em> peripheral only, normally pinnate, containing gonads; larva lecithotrophic without shell. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/accordion] [\/accordions]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"height: 300px; width: 800px;\" align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"border-right: 15px solid white; float: left; width: 250px;\">\n<p align=\"center\">Craniida<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/brachiopoda\/craniata\/craniida\/\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Petrocrania_scabiosa_250pxB.png?resize=250%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"border-right: 15px solid white; float: left; width: 250px;\">\n<p align=\"center\">Craniopsida<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/brachiopoda\/craniata\/craniopsida\/\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Craniops_cincinnatiensis_250B.png?resize=250%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classification Phylum: Brachiopoda Class: Craniata (Williams &#038; others, 1996) Cincinnatian Orders: Craniida, Craniopsida Geologic Range Lower Cambrian, Middle Cambrian, Ordovician &#8211; Holocene Common Paleoecology Craniata is an extinct class of stationary, epifaunal suspension feeders. Characteristics of the Class Calcitic or &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/brachiopoda\/craniata\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Craniata<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":47,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2364","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3T22h-C8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13813,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2364\/revisions\/13813"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}