Endothyra is an extinct genus of fusulinid belonging to the family Endothyridae.[2] Specimens of the genus have been found in Carboniferous beds in North America and many other locations in the world. It was a common and widespread rock-forming fusulinid.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Phylum: | Retaria |
| Subphylum: | Foraminifera |
| Class: | †Fusulinata |
| Family: | †Endothyridae |
| Subfamily: | †Endothyrinae |
| Genus: | †Endothyra Phillips 1846[1] |
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References edit
- ^ Phillips, J. On the remains of microscopic animals in the rocks of Yorkshire. Proceedings of the Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West-Riding of Yorkshire. August 1845: 274-302 (1846).
- ^ Loeblich, Alfred R.; Tappan, Helen (1984). "Suprageneric Classification of the Foraminiferida (Protozoa)". Micropaleontology. 30 (1): 1. doi:10.2307/1485456. JSTOR 1485456.
- ^ a b Scott, Harold W.; Zeller, Edward; Zeller, Doris Nodine (1947). "The Genus Endothyra". Journal of Paleontology. 21 (6): 557–562. JSTOR 1299229.
- ^ Harlton, B. H. (1933). "Micropaleontology of the Pennsylvanian Johns Valley shale of the Ouachita Mountains, Oklahoma, and its relationship to the Mississippian Caney shale". Journal of Paleontology. 7 (1): 3–29. JSTOR 1298118.
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