Sphenalosia smedleyi Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Productida - Strophalosiidae

Full reference: H. Muir-Wood and G. A. Cooper. 1960. Morphology, classification and life habits of the Productoidea (Brachiopoda). Geological Society of America Memoir 81:1-447

Belongs to Sphenalosia according to A. Logan and A. McGugan 1968

See also Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: USNM 119089. Its type locality is Basin Creek, Lincoln County, which is in a Wuchiapingian carbonate limestone in the Park City Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Canada (2: Alberta, British Columbia collections), United States (1: Wyoming)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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