Terebratulina capillata Cooper 1988 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae

Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1988. Some Tertiary Brachiopods of the East Coast of the United States. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology (64)1-27

Belongs to Terebratulina according to G. A. Cooper 1988

Sister taxa: Terebratulina (Shurugathyris), Terebratulina abyssicola, Terebratulina akitana, Terebratulina alabamensis, Terebratulina arabica, Terebratulina ausroamericana, Terebratulina australis, Terebratulina biauriculata, Terebratulina brundidgensis, Terebratulina buckmani, Terebratulina cailleti, Terebratulina callinome, Terebratulina carinata, Terebratulina cavata, Terebratulina christopheri, Terebratulina chrysalis, Terebratulina compressa, Terebratulina crossei, Terebratulina cumingi, Terebratulina edwardsi, Terebratulina eggeri, Terebratulina etheridgei, Terebratulina etigoensis, Terebratulina faujasii, Terebratulina gracilis, Terebratulina hanawensis, Terebratulina hashimotoi, Terebratulina hataiana, Terebratulina hawaiiensis, Terebratulina helenae, Terebratulina honsyuensis, Terebratulina iduensis, Terebratulina imbricata, Terebratulina indomita, Terebratulina japonica, Terebratulina johansenae, Terebratulina kendricki, Terebratulina kiiensis, Terebratulina kitakamiensis, Terebratulina kurotakiensis, Terebratulina kyusyuensis, Terebratulina lachryma, Terebratulina leeae, Terebratulina longicollis, Terebratulina louisianae, Terebratulina manchionealensis, Terebratulina meridionalis, Terebratulina miuraensis, Terebratulina moniwaensis, Terebratulina nodulosa, Terebratulina pacifica, Terebratulina palmeri, Terebratulina peculiaris, Terebratulina perplexa, Terebratulina photina, Terebratulina protostriatula, Terebratulina putiensis, Terebratulina radula, Terebratulina reevi, Terebratulina retusa, Terebratulina rigida, Terebratulina silicea, Terebratulina simosensis, Terebratulina sirahamensis, Terebratulina subcarinata, Terebratulina substriata, Terebratulina subtilis, Terebratulina suessi, Terebratulina tejonensis, Terebratulina tenuistriata, Terebratulina titibuensis, Terebratulina tohokuensis, Terebratulina unguicula, Terebratulina valdiviae, Terebratulina wardenensis, Terebratulina washingtoniana, Terebratulina wilsoni, Terebratulina yabei, Terebratulina zinboi

Type specimen: USNM 550814b, a shell. Its type locality is USGS 10340, 10613 (City Rock quarry near cemetery), which is in a Bartonian deep subtidal ramp wackestone/grainstone in the Castle Hayne Formation of North Carolina.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (3: North Carolina collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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