Marginifera multicostellata Cooper 1957 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Productida

Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1957. Permian brachiopods from central Oregon. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Contributions 134(12):1-79

Belongs to Marginifera according to G. A. Cooper 1957

Sister taxa: Marginifera (Arenaria), Marginifera (Marginifera), Marginifera (Nesiotia), Marginifera adairensis, Marginifera aliensis, Marginifera andreai, Marginifera bicostala, Marginifera brevisulcata, Marginifera carniolica, Marginifera costalliformis, Marginifera costellata, Marginifera depressa, Marginifera elongatoides, Marginifera ganota, Marginifera gibbosa, Marginifera gobiensis, Marginifera haydenensis, Marginifera hubeiensis, Marginifera involuta, Marginifera jalaidensis, Marginifera juresanensis, Marginifera lebedevi, Marginifera longispina, Marginifera madagascariensis, Marginifera magniplicata, Marginifera minor, Marginifera morrisi, Marginifera nathorstfjordensis, Marginifera nesiotes, Marginifera orvini, Marginifera parahimalayensis, Marginifera planocosta, Marginifera popovkaensis, Marginifera profundosulcata, Marginifera qaganqulutica, Marginifera qamarensis, Marginifera schartimiensiformis, Marginifera schellwieni, Marginifera semigratiosa, Marginifera septentrionalis, Marginifera sexcostata, Marginifera spinulifera, Marginifera tetraspina, Marginifera timanica, Marginifera unsulcata, Marginifera uralica, Marginifera vihiana, Marginifera yanhuensis, Marginifera zhongbaensis, Productus (Marginifera) acutocurvatus, Productus (Marginifera) gerassimovi, Productus (Marginifera) nikchitchi, Productus (Marginifera) simkini, Productus (Marginifera) spatiosus, Productus (Marginifera) subornatus, Strigospina uguibaoensis, Strigospina lineata

Type specimen: USNM 125365. Its type locality is S46, 3.25 miles N25W of Sherman Ranch, Grindstone-Twelvemile Creek area, which is in a Kungurian marine limestone/sandstone in the Coyote Butte Formation of Oregon.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at S46, 3.25 miles N25W of Sherman Ranch, Grindstone-Twelvemile Creek area

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