†Petasmaia expansa Cooper and Grant 1969 (lamp shell)
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Strophomenata - Productida - Lyttoniidae
Full reference: G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant. 1969. New Permian brachiopods from west Texas. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 1:1-20
Belongs to Petasmaia according to J. I. Tazawa and H. Araki 2018
See also Cooper and Grant 1969, Cooper and Grant 1974, Tazawa 2016 and Tazawa and Ono 2013
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: USNM 151343, a valve
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Japan (3 collections), United States (9: Texas)
Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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