Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae

Synonym: Cooperithyris Feldman et al. 2012 [replaced name]

Full reference: H. R. Feldman, V. J. Radulović, A. A. A. Hegab and B. V. Radulović. 2014. Sinaithyris, a new name for the Middle Jurassic terebratulid brachiopod Cooperithyris Feldman, Radulović;, Hegab, and Radulović, 2012 preoccupied by Cooperithyris Tchorszevsky, 1988. Journal of Paleontology 88:1094

Parent taxon: Loboidothyridinae according to H. R. Feldman et al. 2014

See also Feldman et al. 2012

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Sinaithyris circularis Sinaithyris weiri

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Type: Sphaeroidothyris weiri

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Gebel El-Maghara breached anticline (Jurassic of Egypt)

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