Beecheria is an extinct genus of brachiopod belonging to the order Terebratulida and family Beecheriidae. Fossils of this genus have been found in Mississippian to Permian beds in Eurasia, Australia, North America, and South America. The genus was part of the Levipustula fauna characteristic of cold water conditions. "Nests" of Beecheria have been found in fossil low temperature hydrothermal vent communities from the early Carboniferous in Newfoundland.
Species
- B. angusta <small>Netschajew 1894</small>
- B. boranelensis <small>Peou and Engel 1979</small>
- B. chouteauensis <small>Weller 1914</small>
- B. curva <small>Smirnova 2009</small>
- B. elliptica <small>Cooper and Grant 1976</small>
- B. expansa <small>Cooper and Grant 1976</small>
- B. kargaliensis <small>Smirnova 2007</small>
- B. lidarensis <small>Diener 1915</small>
- B. magna <small>Jin and Ye 1979</small>
- B. netschajewi <small>Grigor'yeva 1967</small>
- B. samarica <small>Smirnova 2007</small>
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