Rhipidomena Cooper 1956 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophomenidae

Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245

Parent taxon: Strophomeninae according to C. R. Congreve et al. 2019

See also Cooper 1956, Sepkoski 2002 and Williams et al. 2000

Sister taxa: Actinomena, Drummuckina, Esilia, Gunnarella, Holtedahlina, Infurca, Leigerina, Longvillia, Ochyromena, Pseudostrophomena, Rugomena, Saxbyonia, Semnanostrophia, Strophomena, Tetraphalerella

Subtaxa: Rhipidomena fillocostellata Rhipidomena mesleri Rhipidomena subparallela Rhipidomena tennesseensis Rhipidomena tenuitesta

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Type: Strophomena tennesseensis

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (1: Québec collection)

• Ordovician of Canada (1: Quebec), China (1), Kazakhstan (1), United States (48: Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia)

• Llandeilo of Mongolia (1)

• Whiterockian of United States (1: Virginia)

Total: 54 collections each including a single occurrence

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