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 Petrocrania according to P.R. Hoover 1981
See also Cooper and Grant 1974
Sister taxa: Petrocrania diabloensis, Petrocrania dodgei, Petrocrania dubia, Petrocrania exasperata, Petrocrania famelica, Petrocrania hamiltoniae, Petrocrania meduanensis, Petrocrania modesta, Petrocrania mullochensis, Petrocrania ourayensi, Petrocrania prona, Petrocrania quadrata, Petrocrania reversa, Petrocrania scabiosa, Petrocrania septifera, Philhedrella siluriana
Type specimen: USNM 151405a, a valve. Its type locality is USNM706e, Hess Canyon, Glass Mountains, which is in a Roadian marine limestone in the Word Formation of Texas.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of United States (4: Texas collections), Venezuela (2)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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