Glyptosteges Cooper and Grant 1975 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Productida - Aulostegidae

Full reference: G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant. 1975. Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, III. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 19:795-1921

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

See also Sepkoski 2002 and Tazawa and Shen 1997

Sister taxa: Costellarina, Craspedona, Institella, Institina, Licharewiconcha, Polymorpharia, Retroplexus, Rugicostella, Sinuatella

Subtaxa: Glyptosteges angustus Glyptosteges insculptus Glyptosteges intricatus Glyptosteges percostatus Glyptosteges sulcatus

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Type: Glyptosteges intricatus

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Japan (1 collection), Thailand (3), United States (56: Texas)

Total: 60 collections including 67 occurrences

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