Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1979. Tertiary and Cretaceous Brachiopods from Cuba and the Caribbean. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 37:1-45
Belongs to Tichosina according to D. A. T. Harper et al. 1997
See also Cooper 1979
Sister taxa: Tichosina abrupta, Tichosina bahamiensis, Tichosina barschi, Tichosina bartletti, Tichosina cubensis, Tichosina erecta, Tichosina expansa, Tichosina floridensis, Tichosina foresti, Tichosina inconstanta, Tichosina insolita, Tichosina lecta, Tichosina martinicensis, Tichosina ovata, Tichosina rotundovata, Tichosina subtriangulata, Tichosina trinitatensis, Tichosina truncata
Type specimen: USNM 550337, a shell. Its type locality is Palmer Loc. 405a, Cojimar Gorge, which is in a Miocene marine marl in Cuba.
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Cuba (3 collections), Jamaica (1)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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