Streptorhynchus cyrano Chronic 1949 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae

Full reference: B.J. Chronic. 1949. Invertebrate paleontology (excepting fuslinids and corals). Upper Paleozoic of Peru 46-173

Belongs to Streptorhynchus according to J. Chronic 1953

See also Chronic 1949

Sister taxa: Streptorhynchus broilii, Streptorhynchus capuloides, Streptorhynchus conicus, Streptorhynchus costatus, Streptorhynchus craticulatus, Streptorhynchus hoskingae, Streptorhynchus huangi, Streptorhynchus inaequiornatus, Streptorhynchus jilinensis, Streptorhynchus johnstonei, Streptorhynchus kayseri, Streptorhynchus khwaense, Streptorhynchus lenticularis, Streptorhynchus liuricus, Streptorhynchus longlinensis, Streptorhynchus longyangensis, Streptorhynchus luluigui, Streptorhynchus memor, Streptorhynchus minor, Streptorhynchus minutum, Streptorhynchus mistus, Streptorhynchus operculatus, Streptorhynchus ovata, Streptorhynchus pajkhoicus, Streptorhynchus pelargonatus, Streptorhynchus pendulus, Streptorhynchus perfidiabadensis, Streptorhynchus plata, Streptorhynchus reliquus, Streptorhynchus ruginosum, Streptorhynchus shanensis, Streptorhynchus shumardianus, Streptorhynchus sibiricus, Streptorhynchus sinuatum, Streptorhynchus stoschensis, Streptorhynchus sulculatum, Streptorhynchus tenuicostatum, Streptorhynchus tenuiplicatus, Streptorhynchus tibetanus, Streptorhynchus tuquanensis, Streptorhynchus turbineus, Streptorhynchus ulrichi, Streptorhynchus variabilis

Type specimen: AMNH 26930/1:1, a shell (Articulated shell). Its type locality is AMNH286, Bed 7, Cerro Caya Caya Section 18, which is in an Artinskian marine limestone in Peru.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at AMNH286, Bed 7, Cerro Caya Caya Section 18

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