“…Firstly, new data on the hypothesized positive crural architecture-shell microstructure relationship (Manceñido and Motchurova-Dekova 2010) are empirically evaluated in several smooth and ribbed rhynchonellides from the Mesozoic-Cainozoic peri-Iberian platforms-basins system, where brachiopod faunas are widely represented virtually in all periods and series, being specially studied in their Jurassic heydays and in crucial events (e.g. Choffat 1880;Jiménez de Cisneros 1923;Dubar 1925;1931;Comas-Rengifo and Goy 1975;Calzada 1975Calzada , 1984Calzada , 1997Calzada and Pocoví 1980;García Joral and Goy 1984, 2009García Joral et al 1990, 2011Alméras et al 1996;Alméras and Fauré 2000;Bitner and Martinell 2001;Reolid 2005;Andrade 2006;García-Ramos 2006;Baeza-Carratalá 2011, 2013Comas-Rengifo et al 2006, 2013, 2015Baeza-Carratalá et al 2015, 2016a, b, 2018Colás 2015;Berrocal-Casero et al 2017Giannetti et al 2018).…”