†Scenesia extensa Cooper and Grant 1976 (lamp shell)
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Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Paeckelmanellidae
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 Scenesia according to G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant 1976
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: USNM 153175a, 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: found only at USNM708u, Split Tank, Glass Mountains
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