Delabole Butterfly
| Cyrtospirifer verneuili | |
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| Fossil specimen of Cyrtospirifer verneuili from Namur (Belgium), Upper Devonian | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Brachiopoda |
| Class: | Rhynchonellata |
| Order: | Spiriferida |
| Family: | Cyrtospiriferidae |
| Genus: | Cyrtospirifer |
| Species: | C. verneuili |
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Cyrtospirifer verneuili Murchison, 1840 |
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Cyrtospirifer verneuili, also called Spirifer verneuili, is an extinct species of brachiopods. The fossils are present in the Upper Devonian.
In Cornwall they have the vernacular name Delabole Butterfly, from the appearance of flattened forms in the slates at Delabole.
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