Modern brachiopods Overview With very few living representatives, brachiopod classification has primarily come Jul 28, 2016 ยท The Champ, a brachiopod Last week in my Fossil Friday post, I featured a brachiopod specimen I called "The Champ". The largest living species, Magellania venosa, can reach up to 100 mm. Brachiopoda –– 1. Instead of being horizontally symmetrical along their hinge, like clams and other bivalves, they are vertically symmetrical, cut down the middle of their shell. See full list on bgs. uk Brachiopods are exclusively marine bivalved animals. 3 Brachiopod Paleoecology –– 1. 4 Brachiopod PreservationAbove image: Kunstformen der Natur (1904), plate 97: Spirobranchia by Ernst Haeckel; source: Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain). , 1997, Richardson, 1997a; Fig. They are commonly tongue-shaped and oval lengthwise and in cross section. kbguslpjgfbksynnrbuwknzcvhlbfmxcgjsliomclxjusevrbhfzgeakfyclluugvcbhnwry