Pterospirifer Dunbar 1955 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Strophopleuridae

Full reference: C. O. Dunbar. 1955. Permian brachiopod faunas of central east Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 110(3):1-169

Parent taxon: Pterospiriferinae according to A. Williams et al. 2006

See also Sepkoski 2002 and Waterhouse 2004

Sister taxa: Alispirifer, Haplospirifer, Johncarteria, Pteroplecta, Spiriferinaella, Xizispirifer, Yukonospirifer

Subtaxa: Pterospirifer alatus Pterospirifer terechovi Pterospirifer waageni

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Australia (2 collections), Canada (6: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (2), Germany (4), Greenland (7), Japan (1), Lithuania (12), Pakistan (2), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), the United Kingdom (17), United States (5: Alaska)

• Pennsylvanian of United States (1: Alaska)

• Carboniferous of China (1)

Total: 66 collections including 69 occurrences

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