Stenoscisma kingi Cloud 1944 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae

Full reference: P. E. Cloud. 1944. Part III: Permian brachiopods, in Geology and paleontology of the Permian area northwest of Las Delicias, southwestern Coahuila, Mexico. Geological Society of America Special Paper 52:49-69

Belongs to Stenoscisma according to P. E. Cloud 1944

See also Quiróz-Barroso and Sour-Tovar 2006

Sister taxa: Stenoscisma abbreviatum, Stenoscisma aberrans, Stenoscisma acuminata, Stenoscisma affinis, Stenoscisma alpinum, Stenoscisma americanum, Stenoscisma amoenum, Stenoscisma aptatum, Stenoscisma australe, Stenoscisma bellatulum, Stenoscisma biplicatoideum, Stenoscisma biplicatum, Stenoscisma bonum, Stenoscisma calvatum, Stenoscisma camurum, Stenoscisma cuneiformis, Stenoscisma doricranum, Stenoscisma exutum, Stenoscisma fabarium, Stenoscisma garouda, Stenoscisma gegyaiensis, Stenoscisma gigantea, Stenoscisma globosa, Stenoscisma grabaui, Stenoscisma hadrum, Stenoscisma hamleti, Stenoscisma hueconianum, Stenoscisma humbletonensis, Stenoscisma inaequale, Stenoscisma irregularis, Stenoscisma japonica, Stenoscisma jingxianensis, Stenoscisma jinjiadianensis, Stenoscisma kalum, Stenoscisma karpinskii, Stenoscisma kochi, Stenoscisma kulojensis, Stenoscisma latissimum, Stenoscisma levicostum, Stenoscisma maniculum, Stenoscisma margaritovi, Stenoscisma multicostum, Stenoscisma multiplicatum, Stenoscisma mutabilis, Stenoscisma myioides, Stenoscisma nuculum, Stenoscisma oblisum, Stenoscisma ovalia, Stenoscisma pansum, Stenoscisma papilio, Stenoscisma paracuneiformis, Stenoscisma paronae, Stenoscisma paucisulcata, Stenoscisma peneleve, Stenoscisma pinguis, Stenoscisma plicata, Stenoscisma plicatum, Stenoscisma problematicum, Stenoscisma pseudopulchrum, Stenoscisma purdoni, Stenoscisma purdoniformis, Stenoscisma pyraustoides, Stenoscisma qararensis, Stenoscisma quasimutabilis, Stenoscisma ratmani, Stenoscisma renode, Stenoscisma repigratum, Stenoscisma sanctispiritus, Stenoscisma schlotheimi, Stenoscisma semiplicata, Stenoscisma shansiensis, Stenoscisma sokolskajae, Stenoscisma solitaria, Stenoscisma spitzbergiana, Stenoscisma taimyrica, Stenoscisma tanankouensis, Stenoscisma tenuistriata, Stenoscisma tetraplicata, Stenoscisma thevenini, Stenoscisma tieliensis, Stenoscisma trabeatum, Stenoscisma transversa, Stenoscisma triangulatum, Stenoscisma triquetrum, Stenoscisma vagata, Stenoscisma venustum, Stenoscisma wooi, Stenoscisma xizangensis, Stenoscisma yanjiensis, Stenoscisma zhenanensis, Camarophoria crumena, Camarophoria cooperensis, Camarophoria sutschuanensis, Camarophoria dowhatensis, Camarophoria applanata, Camarophoria parvula

Type specimen: YPM S-2741. Its type locality is King 34, Bed 12, Malascachas section, Las Delicias, which is in a Roadian carbonate limestone in the Palo Quemado Formation of Mexico.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at King 34, Bed 12, Malascachas section, Las Delicias

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