Strophomenata - Productida - Araksalosiidae
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: Quadratiinae according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Chonetipustula, Cyphotalosia, Plicaea, Plicatiferina
Subtaxa: Quadratia alifera Quadratia egregia Quadratia hirsutiformis Quadratia patula
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Australia (2 collections), Germany (1), United States (23: Idaho, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, Tennessee, Texas, Utah)
Total: 26 collections each including a single occurrence
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