Hustedia spicata Cooper and Grant 1976 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Neoretziidae

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 Hustedia according to G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant 1976

Sister taxa: Hustedia ambigua, Hustedia ampullacea, Hustedia bipartita, Hustedia borealis, Hustedia catella, Hustedia cepacea, Hustedia circularis, Hustedia citeria, Hustedia compressa, Hustedia connorsi, Hustedia consuta, Hustedia crepax, Hustedia culcitula, Hustedia cuneata, Hustedia decollatensis, Hustedia deminuta, Hustedia demissa, Hustedia elongata, Hustedia episkopiensis, Hustedia funaria, Hustedia glomerosa, Hustedia grandicosta, Hustedia hapala, Hustedia hessensis, Hustedia huecoensis, Hustedia hyporhachis, Hustedia inconspicua, Hustedia indica, Hustedia lata, Hustedia longirostris, Hustedia lusca, Hustedia meekana, Hustedia meridionalis, Hustedia mexicana, Hustedia minuta, Hustedia mormoni, Hustedia narinosa, Hustedia opsia, Hustedia orbicostata, Hustedia orientalis, Hustedia paula, Hustedia phosphoriensis, Hustedia pseudocardia, Hustedia pugilla, Hustedia ratburiensis, Hustedia remota, Hustedia rhynchospiroides, Hustedia rupinata, Hustedia samiata, Hustedia sculptilis, Hustedia shumardi, Hustedia sicuaniensis, Hustedia stataria, Hustedia sulcata, Hustedia texana, Hustedia tomea, Hustedia trisecta, Hustedia trita, Hustedia troelseni, Hustedia xainzaensis

Type specimen: USNM 154486, a shell (Articulated shell)

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of United States (22: Texas collections)

Total: 22 collections each including a single occurrence

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