Heterelasma angulatum Cooper and Grant 1976 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Cryptonellidae

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

Sister taxa: Dielasma (Heterelasma) semitarium, Heterelasma concavum, Heterelasma contortum, Heterelasma contrerasi, Heterelasma geniculatum, Heterelasma gibbosum, Heterelasma glansfagea, Heterelasma lenticularia, Heterelasma magnum, Heterelasma ngariensis, Heterelasma pentagonum, Heterelasma quadratum, Heterelasma shumardianum, Heterelasma solidum, Heterelasma sulciplicatum, Heterelasma venustulum

Type specimen: USNM 154307a, a shell (Articulated shell)

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of United States (3: Texas collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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