Teguliferina parva Cooper and Grant 1975 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Productida - Cyclacanthariidae

Full reference: G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant. 1975. Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, III. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 19:795-1921

Belongs to Teguliferina according to G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant 1975

Sister taxa: Teguliferina boesei, Teguliferina chabartensis, Teguliferina compacta, Teguliferina deformis, Teguliferina geniculata, Teguliferina irregularis, Teguliferina miatschkowensis, Teguliferina rossica, Teguliferina solidispinosa, Tegulifera uralica

Type specimen: USNM 151372e, a shell (Articulated shell). Its type locality is USNM761, Burbank Quarry, which is in an Asselian open shallow subtidal limestone in the Red Eagle Limestone Formation of Oklahoma.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at USNM761, Burbank Quarry

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