Eccentrotheca kanesia Landing et al. 1980 (lamp shell)

Brachiopoda - Tommotiida

Full reference: E. Landing, G. S. Nowlan, and T. P. Fletcher. 1980. A microfauna associated with Early Cambrian trilobites of the Callavia Zone, northern Antigonish Highlands, Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 17(3):400-418

Belongs to Eccentrotheca according to E. Landing et al. 1989

See also Hinz 1987, Landing et al. 1980 and Laurie 1986

Sister taxa: none

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cambrian of Australia (1 collection), Canada (14: Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia), the United Kingdom (5), United States (6: Massachusetts)

• Placentian of Canada (2: Nova Scotia), United States (9: Massachusetts)

Total: 37 collections each including a single occurrence

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