Crossalosia Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Productida - Strophalosiidae

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: Dasyalosiinae according to A. Williams et al. 2000

See also Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Arcticalosia, Costalosiella, Dasyalosia, Guadalupelosia, Hontorialosia, Orthothrix, Wyndhamia

Subtaxa: Crossalosia buchiana

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Type: Productus buchianus

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Stebden Hill Reef (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

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