Thamnosia depressa Cooper 1953 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae

Alternative combination: Dictyoclostus depressus

Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1953. Sponges, Brachiopoda, Pelecypoda, and Scaphopoda. Permian fauna at El Antimonio, western Sonora, Mexico. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 119(2):21-80

Belongs to Thamnosia according to C. González-Arreola et al. 1994

See also Cooper 1953, Cooper and Grant 1975 and Wardlaw 1977

Sister taxa: Thamnosia anterospinosa, Thamnosia arctica, Thamnosia capitanensis, Thamnosia longlinensis, Thamnosia mutabilis, Thamnosia nakadairensis, Thamnosia parvispinosa, Thamnosia phragmophora, Thamnosia silicica, Thamnosia spinosa, Thuleproductus subarcticus, Thuleproductus crassauritus

Type specimen: USNM 115467, a shell

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Mexico (15 collections), United States (2: Nevada)

Total: 17 collections each including a single occurrence

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