Thedusia ventricosa 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 Thedusia according to M. A. Torres-Martínez et al. 2019

See also Cooper and Grant 1976

Sister taxa: Thedusia angustata, Thedusia biconvexa, Thedusia bucrenata, Thedusia dischides, Thedusia discissa, Thedusia emarginata, Thedusia latisulcata, Thedusia magna, Thedusia mesocostata, Thedusia paucicostata, Thedusia procera, Thedusia trigonalis

Type specimen: USNM 154503, a shell (Articulated shell)

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Mexico (1 collection), United States (27: Texas)

Total: 28 collections each including a single occurrence

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