Strophomenata - Productida - Paucispiniferidae
Alternative combinations: Marginifera popei, Productus popei
Full reference: B. F. Shumard. 1858. Notice of new fossils from the Permian strata of New Mexico and Texas, collected by Dr. George G. Shumard, geologist of the United States Government expedition for obtaining water by means of artesian wells along the 32nd parallel, under the direction of Capt John Pope, US Corps Topographic Engineers. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 1:290-297
Belongs to Liosotella according to G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant 1975
See also Cloud 1944, Girty 1908, McKee 1938, Shumard 1858 and Shumard 1859
Sister taxa: Liosotella angustata, Liosotella compacta, Liosotella cooperi, Liosotella costata, Liosotella decimana, Liosotella grandicosta, Liosotella heilongjiangensis, Liosotella hemispherica, Liosotella irregularis, Liosotella magnirugosa, Liosotella miaolingensis, Liosotella minuscula, Liosotella mongugaensis, Liosotella opima, Liosotella parva, Liosotella proboscidea, Liosotella rotunda, Liosotella rugosa, Liosotella spinumbona, Liosotella subcylindrica, Liosotella subquadrata, Liosotella subrugosa, Liosotella tetragonalis, Liosotella texana, Liosotella wordensis
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Mexico (7 collections), United States (45: New Mexico, Texas)
Total: 52 collections each including a single occurrence
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