Strophomenata - Productida - Aulostegidae
Full reference: H. Muir-Wood and G. A. Cooper. 1960. Morphology, classification and life habits of the Productoidea (Brachiopoda). Geological Society of America Memoir 81:1-447
Parent taxon: Chonosteginae according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Chonostegoides, Costisteges, Urushtenia, Urushtenoidea
Subtaxa: Chonosteges cooperi Chonosteges costellatus Chonosteges limbatus Chonosteges magnicostatus Chonosteges matutinus Chonosteges multicostatus Chonosteges pulcher Chonosteges variabilis
Type: Aulosteges magnicostatus
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of China (1 collection), Guatemala (1), Japan (1), Malaysia (1), Mexico (1), Thailand (1), United States (104: Texas)
Total: 110 collections including 126 occurrences
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