Phrenophoria nesiotes Cooper and Grant 1976 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae

Full reference: G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant. 1976. Permian Brachiopods from West Texas, IV. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 21:1923-2607

Belongs to Phrenophoria according to G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant 1976

Sister taxa: Phrenophoria anterocostata, Phrenophoria bicostata, Phrenophoria compressa, Phrenophoria corpulenta, Phrenophoria depressa, Phrenophoria incomitata, Phrenophoria irregularis, Phrenophoria nudumbona, Phrenophoria pentagonalis, Phrenophoria perplexa, Phrenophoria pinguiformis, Phrenophoria pinguis, Phrenophoria planifrons, Phrenophoria planiventra, Phrenophoria repugnans, Phrenophoria subcarinata, Phrenophoria ventricosa, Phrenophoria vetula

Type specimen: USNM 148355h, a shell (Articulated shell). Its type locality is USNM708u, Split Tank, Glass Mountains, which is in a Kungurian marine limestone in the Cathedral Mountain Formation of Texas.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of United States (2: Texas collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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