Crenispirifer sagus Cooper and Grant 1976 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae

Full reference: G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant. 1976. Permian Brachiopods of west Texas, V. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 24:2609-3159

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

Sister taxa: Crenispirifer alpheus, Crenispirifer angulatus, Crenispirifer dzhulfensis, Crenispirifer effrenus, Crenispirifer jubatus, Crenispirifer myllus, Crenispirifer nakamurai

Type specimen: USNM 153070b, a shell (Articulated shell)

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at AMNH369, Shirttail Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains (Permian of Texas)

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