Dolerorthis

{{Short description|Extinct genus of brachiopods}}

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{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Silurian

| taxon = Dolerorthis

| authority = Schuchert & Cooper 1931{{Cite journal|last1=Schuchert |first1=C. |last2=Cooper |first2=G. A. |year=1931 |title=Synopsis of the brachiopod genera of the suborders Orthoidea and Pentameroidea, with notes on the Telotremata |journal=American Journal of Science |volume=s5–22 |issue=129 |pages=241–251 |doi=10.2475/ajs.s5-22.129.241 |bibcode=1931AmJS...22..241S }}

| type_species = {{extinct}}Orthis interplicata

| type_species_authority = Foerste, 1909

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• {{extinct}}Dolerorthis interplicata
  (Foerste, 1909)

| synonyms =

• Orthis interplicata
  Foerste, 1909

}}

Dolerorthis is an extinct genus of hesperorthid brachiopod.{{Cite journal|last1=Paškevičius |first1=J. |last2=Hints |first2=L. |year=2016 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303354786|title=New Early Katian species of Leptestiidae and Hesperorthidae (Brachiopoda) from Lithuania |journal=Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences |volume=65 |issue=2 |pages=75–84 |doi=10.3176/earth.2016.05 |doi-access=free }} The type species of this genus, D. interplicata, was described from the Silurian (Telychian) Osgood Formation (Indiana, United States). Other species belonging to this genus are known from the Ordovician and Silurian of Europe,{{Cite journal|last=Cocks |first=L. R. M. |year=2008 |title=A revised review of British Lower Palaeozoic brachiopods |journal=Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society |volume=161 |issue=629 |pages=1–276 |doi=10.1080/25761900.2022.12131809 |s2cid=250645359 }}{{Cite journal|last1=Colmenar |first1=J. |last2=Pereira |first2=S. |last3=Pires |first3=M. |last4=Marques da Silva |first4=C. |last5=Sá |first5=A. A. |last6=Young |first6=T. P. |year=2017 |title=A Kralodvorian (upper Katian, Upper Ordovician) benthic association from the Ferradosa Formation (central Portugal) and its significance for the redefinition and subdivision of the Kralodvorian Stage |journal=Bulletin of Geosciences |volume=92 |issue=4 |pages=443–464 |doi=10.3140/bull.geosci.1643 |doi-access=free }} Kazakhstan,{{Cite journal|last1=Popov |first1=L. E. |last2=Cocks |first2=L. R. M. |last3=Nikitin |first3=I. F. |year=2002 |title=Upper Ordovician brachiopods from the Anderken Formation, Kazakhstan: their ecology and systematics |journal=Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Geology Series |volume=58 |issue=1 |pages=13–79 |doi=10.1017/S0968046202000025 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/140860 }} China{{Cite journal|last1=Rong |first1=J. |last2=Huang |first2=B. |last3=Zhan |first3=R.-B. |last4=Harper |first4=D. A. T. |year=2013 |title=Latest Ordovician and earliest Silurian brachiopods succeeding the Hirnantia fauna in South-east China |journal=Special Papers in Palaeontology |volume=90 |pages=1–142 }} and Argentina.{{Cite journal|last1=Benedetto |first1=J. L. |last2=Cocks |first2=L. R. |year=2009 |title=Early Silurian (Rhuddanian) brachiopods from the Argentine Precordillera and their biogeographic affinities |journal=Ameghiniana |volume=46 |issue=2 |pages=241–253 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287769895 }} It was roughly {{convert|4|cm|in}} across.