Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Alternative combination: Rhynchonella indentata
Full reference: B. F. Shumard. 1859. Notice of fossils from the Permian strata of Texas and New Mexico obtained by the United States expedition under Capt. John Pope, for boring artesian wells along the 32nd parallel, with descriptions of new species from these strata and the Coal Measures of that region. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 1:387-402
Belongs to Strigirhynchia according to G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant 1976
See also Cooper and Grant 1969, Girty 1908 and Shumard 1859
Sister taxa: Strigirhynchia elongata, Strigirhynchia transversa
Type specimen: USNM 118572, a shell (Articulated shell)
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of United States (18: New Mexico, Texas collections)
Total: 18 collections each including a single occurrence
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