Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
Alternative combination: Avonia costata
Synonym: Costispinifera texana Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
Full reference: R. E. King. 1931. The Geology of the Glass Mountains, Texas, Part II, Faunal summary and correlation of the Permian formations with description of Brachiopoda. The University of Texas Bulletin 3042:1-245
Belongs to Costispinifera according to G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant 1975
Sister taxa: Costispinifera conspica, Costispinifera paucispinosa, Costispinifera rugatula, Costispinifera shizilingensis, Costispinifera sulcata, Costispinifera walcottiana
Type specimens:
- Costispinifera costata: T10282a. Its type locality is University of Texas T240, Hill 5801, Glass Mountains, which is in a Roadian carbonate limestone in the Word Formation of Texas.
- Costispinifera texana:
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Mexico (1 collection), United States (18: California, Texas)
Total: 19 collections each including a single occurrence
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