Cartorhium coristum Cooper and Grant 1976 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae

Full reference: G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant. 1976. Permian Brachiopods from West Texas, IV. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 21:1923-2607

Belongs to Cartorhium according to J. I. Tazawa 2016

See also Cooper and Grant 1976, Tazawa 2012 and Tazawa and Shen 1997

Sister taxa: Cartorhium alisangensis, Cartorhium chelomatum, Cartorhium imperfectum, Cartorhium latum, Cartorhium lunwalensis, Cartorhium mexicanum, Cartorhium multiradiatus, Cartorhium orbiculatum, Cartorhium retusum, Cartorhium rhomboidalis, Cartorhium twifurcifer, Cartorhium vidriense, Cartorhium xikouensis, Cartorhium zoyei

Type specimen: USNM 152920a, a shell (Articulated shell). Its type locality is USNM708, Hess Ranch, Glass Mountains, which is in a Kungurian reef, buildup or bioherm limestone in the Cathedral Mountain Formation of Texas.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Japan (3 collections), United States (9: Texas)

Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence

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