Strophomenata - Productida - Lyttoniidae
Full reference: P.R. Hoover. 1981. Paleontology, Taphonomy, and Paleoecology of the Palmarito Formation (Permian of Venezuela). Bulletins of American Paleontology 80(313):1-138
Belongs to Collemataria according to P.R. Hoover 1981
Sister taxa: Collemataria americana, Collemataria batilliformis, Collemataria elongata, Collemataria gregaria, Collemataria irregularis, Collemataria marshalli, Collemataria platys, Collemataria spatulata
Type specimen: USNM 221269, a valve (Ventral valve). Its type locality is Locality 6, Block A, mule trail between El Portachuelo and Mucuchachi, which is in a Kungurian open shallow subtidal wackestone in the Palmarito Formation of Venezuela.
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Locality 6, Block A, mule trail between El Portachuelo and Mucuchachi
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