Desmoinesia Hoare 1960 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Productida

Full reference: R. D. Hoare. 1960. New Pennsylvanian Brachiopoda from southwest Missouri. Journal of Paleontology 34(2):217-232

Parent taxon: Breileeniini according to A. Williams et al. 2000

See also Hoare 1961 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Breileenia, Neosandia

Subtaxa: Desmoinesia muricatina Desmoinesia nana

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Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Desmoinesian of United States (99: Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah collections)

• Pennsylvanian of United States (1: California)

• Carboniferous of United States (20: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Kentucky, Nevada, New Mexico, New mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma)

Total: 120 collections including 138 occurrences

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