Strophomenata - Productida - Paucispiniferidae
Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1953. Sponges, Brachiopoda, Pelecypoda, and Scaphopoda. Permian fauna at El Antimonio, western Sonora, Mexico. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 119(2):21-80
Belongs to Liosotella according to D. P. Heredia-Jiménez et al. 2019
See also Cooper 1953 and Lee and Gu 1980
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 popei, Liosotella proboscidea, Liosotella rotunda, Liosotella spinumbona, Liosotella subcylindrica, Liosotella subquadrata, Liosotella subrugosa, Liosotella tetragonalis, Liosotella texana, Liosotella wordensis
Type specimen: USNM 115458. Its type locality is USNM806n, Cerros de los Monos, El Antimonio, Sonora, which is in a Wordian marine limestone in the Antimonio Formation of Mexico.
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of China (1 collection), Mexico (12)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
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