Strophomenata - Productida - Lyttoniidae
Full reference: Z. T. Liao. 1980. Upper Permian brachiopods from western Guizhou. Late Permian Stratigraphy and Fossils in Western Guizhou and Eastern Yunnan 241-277
Belongs to Leptodus according to H. T. Wu et al. 2018
See also Kotlyar 1989, Liao 1980 and Zeng et al. 1995
Sister taxa: Leptodus cancriniformis, Leptodus elongatus, Leptodus guadalupensis, Leptodus hemisphaericus, Leptodus hoshanensis, Leptodus huangi, Leptodus kaluzinensis, Leptodus lacuna, Leptodus lamina, Leptodus minor, Leptodus nobilis, Leptodus oldhaminoides, Leptodus ovatus, Leptodus richthofeni, Leptodus trapezium, Leptodus tumenlingensis, Leptodus wuchangensis, Poikilosakos tongluensis, Spinolyttonia arakeljani
Type specimen: NIGP 43684. Its type locality is Bulang Section BM10, Puding County, which is in a Wuchiapingian marine horizon in the Longtan Formation of China.
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of China (22 collections), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 23 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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