Acanthocrania vasta 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 densispina, Acanthocrania elusa, Acanthocrania intermedia, Acanthocrania magna, Acanthocrania minutispinosa, Acanthocrania nordtimanica, Acanthocrania platys, Acanthocrania regularis, Acanthocrania setigera, Acanthocrania spiculata

Type specimen: USNM 152573, a valve. Its type locality is USNM731, Pinyon Tank, Guadalupe Mountains, which is in a Wordian slope limestone in the Bell Canyon Formation of Texas.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of United States (2: Texas collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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