Strophomenata - Productida - Aulostegidae
Alternative combination: Aulosteges dalhousii
Full reference: T. Davidson. 1862. On some Carboniferous Brachiopoda collected in India by A. Fleming, MD, and W. Purdon, Esq, FGS. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 18:25-35
Belongs to Aulosteges according to S. X. Zhang and Y. G. Jin 1976
See also Davidson 1862, Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960, Shimizu 1961, Tschernyschew 1902 and Waagen 1884
Sister taxa: Aulosteges baracoodensis, Aulosteges fragilis, Aulosteges horrescens, Aulosteges ingens, Aulosteges lineata, Aulosteges lyndonensis, Aulosteges percostatus, Aulosteges transversa, Aulosteges trimuensis, Aulosteges virilis, Aulosteges wangenheimi, Aulosteges wynnei
Type specimen: Its type locality is Moosakhail (Purdon coll), which is in a Wuchiapingian marine limestone in the Wargal Formation of Pakistan
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of China (2 collections), Japan (1), Pakistan (4)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
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