Strophomenata - Productida - Aulostegidae
Alternative combination: Taeniothaerus baracoodensis
Full reference: R. Etheridge Jr. 1903. Descriptions of Carboniferous fossils from the Gascoyne District, Western Australia, collected by Mr. A. Gibb Maitland, government geologist. Western Australia Geological Survey Bulletin 10:1-31
Belongs to Aulosteges according to N. W. Archbold 1990
See also Coleman 1957, Etheridge 1903, Etheridge 1915 and Yang et al. 1990
Sister taxa: Aulosteges dalhousi, Aulosteges fragilis, Aulosteges horrescens, Aulosteges ingens, Aulosteges lineata, Aulosteges lyndonensis, Aulosteges percostatus, Aulosteges transversa, Aulosteges trimuensis, Aulosteges virilis, Aulosteges wangenheimi, Aulosteges wynnei
Type specimen: Its type locality is Baracooda Pool, Arthur River, which is in a Sakmarian marine siliciclastic in Australia
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (4 collections), China (1)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
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