Strophomenata - Productida - Aulostegidae
Full reference: H. Muir-Wood and G. A. Cooper. 1960. Morphology, classification and life habits of the Productoidea (Brachiopoda). Geological Society of America Memoir 81:1-447
Belongs to Xenosteges according to G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant 1975
See also Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
Sister taxa: Xenosteges anomalus, Xenosteges magnus, Xenosteges minusculus, Xenosteges quadratus, Xenosteges trivialis, Xenosteges umbonatus
Type specimen: USNM 124128b. Its type locality is USNM702, Split Tank, Glass Mountains, which is in a Kungurian reef, buildup or bioherm limestone in the Cathedral Mountain Formation of Texas.
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of United States (30: Texas collections)
Total: 30 collections each including a single occurrence
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