Echinauris huehuetenanguensis Stehli and Grant 1970 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae

Full reference: F.G. Stehli and R. E. Grant. 1970. Permian brachiopods from Huehuetenango, Guatemala. Journal of Paleontology 44(1):23-36

Belongs to Echinauris according to F.G. Stehli and R. E. Grant 1970

Sister taxa: Echinauris bella, Echinauris boulei, Echinauris circularis, Echinauris crassa, Echinauris dorsoconcava, Echinauris doulingensis, Echinauris interrupta, Echinauris irregularis, Echinauris jisuensis, Echinauris lappacea, Echinauris lateralis, Echinauris liumbona, Echinauris magna, Echinauris newberryi, Echinauris opuntia, Echinauris parva, Echinauris productelloides, Echinauris subhorrida, Echinauris subquadrata, Echinauris venustula, Echinauris zhexiensis

Type specimen: USNM 163555, a valve (Ventral valve). Its type locality is USNM9258, Sierra Los Cuchumatanes (FS-67-G-7), which is in a Kungurian marine limestone in the Chochal Formation of Guatemala.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at USNM9258, Sierra Los Cuchumatanes (FS-67-G-7)

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