Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Strophopleuridae
Alternative combinations: Paeckelmanella alata, Spirifer alatus, Spirifera alata, Terebratulites alatus, Trigonotreta alata
Synonyms: Delthyris undulata Sowerby 1827, Spirifer permianus King 1848, Spirifer undulatus Sowerby 1827, Trigonotreta permiana King 1848, Trigonotreta undulata Sowerby 1827
Full reference: E. F. von Schlotheim. 1813. Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Versteinerungen in geognostischer Hinsicht. Taschenbuch für die gesammte Mineralogie, mit Hinsicht auf die neuesten Entdeckungen, herausgegeben von Dr. Carl Caesar Leonhard 7(1):3-134
Belongs to Pterospirifer according to J. I. Tazawa et al. 2015
See also Davidson 1858, Dunbar 1955, Geinitz 1841, Geinitz 1861, Howse 1848, Howse 1857, King 1850, Langenhan 1899, Lee and Gu 1980, Li et al. 1986, Nelson and Nelson 1985, Sowerby 1827, von Schlotheim 1813, Waagen 1883 and Waterhouse 2004
Sister taxa: Pterospirifer terechovi, Pterospirifer waageni
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Canada (2: British Columbia, Nunavut collections), China (2), Germany (4), Greenland (7), Japan (1), Lithuania (12), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), the United Kingdom (17), United States (2: Alaska)
• Carboniferous of China (1), United States (1: Alaska)
Total: 54 collections including 57 occurrences
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