• A study aiming to reconstruct the life cycle of the Early
Cambrian brachiopods is published by Madison & Kuzmina (2019). • A study on the anatomy of
plectambonitoid specimens from the Middle
Ordovician of Russia, and on its implications for the knowledge of life cycles of these brachiopods, is published online by Madison & Kuzmina (2019). • A study on the
petrographic and
geochemical preservation of Ordovician
dalmanelloid shells from the
Lexington Formation of
Kentucky, Sheguindah Shale of
Ontario and the
Stony Mountain Formation of
Manitoba, aiming to test the hypothesis of paleo-latitudinal zonation of the shelly
benthos, is published by Azmy & Jin (2019). • A study on the phylogenetic relationships among
strophomenoid brachiopods and on the biogeographical changes in the strophomenoids through time (focusing on the impact of the Late Ordovician mass extinction on the evolutionary history of strophomenoids) is published by Congreve, Krug & Patzkowsky (2019). • A study on the internal structure of the shell of
Semiplanella carinthica is published by Pakhnevich (2019), who names a new tribe
Semiplanellini in the subfamily
Gigantoproductinae. • A study on the diet of species of
Gigantoproductus from the
Viséan of
Derbyshire (
United Kingdom), and on its implications for the knowledge of mechanisms that enabled those brachiopod species to reach large sizes, is published by Angiolini
et al. (2019). • A study on the relative importance of brachiopods and
bivalves in the fossil assemblages from the
Carboniferous Pennsylvanian Breathitt Formation of
Kentucky is published by Hsieh, Bush & Bennington (2019). • Description of a specimen of a
Permian brachiopod species
Spiriferella protodraschei bearing ventrally directed spiralia (
lophophore-supporting, coiled internal structures), and a study on the morphology of these structures and their implications for the knowledge of the feeding system of this brachiopod, is published by Lee
et al. (2019). • A study on the evolution of the body size of brachiopods from the Late Permian to the Middle Triassic, as indicated by brachiopod specimens from South China, is published by Chen
et al. (2019). • A study on the biogeography of
Pliensbachian brachiopods in western
Tethys Ocean is published online by Vörös & Escarguel (2019). • A study on changes in the body size of
benthic marine brachiopods and bivalves from the
Lusitanian Basin (
Portugal) before the
Toarcian oceanic
anoxic event is published by Piazza
et al. (2019). • A study on the impact of the early Toarcian extinction event on fossil brachiopods and bivalves known from the Iberian Range (
Spain) is published by Danise
et al. (2019). ==New taxa==