Acanthocrania densispina Cooper and Grant 1974 (lamp shell)

Craniata - Craniida - Craniidae

Full reference: G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant. 1974. Permian brachiopods of West Texas, II. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 15:233-793

Belongs to Acanthocrania according to G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant 1974

Sister taxa: Acanthocrania alta, Acanthocrania conferta, Acanthocrania cracentis, Acanthocrania elusa, Acanthocrania intermedia, Acanthocrania magna, Acanthocrania minutispinosa, Acanthocrania nordtimanica, Acanthocrania platys, Acanthocrania regularis, Acanthocrania setigera, Acanthocrania spiculata, Acanthocrania vasta

Type specimen: USNM 151434b, a valve. Its type locality is USNM702c, Old Word Ranch, Glass Mountains, which is in a Kungurian slope/ramp reef limestone in the Road Canyon Formation of Texas.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of United States (10: Texas collections)

Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence

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