Oligothyrina alleni Cooper 1956 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Pseudodielasmatidae

Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. New Pennsylvanian Brachiopods. Journal of Paleontology 30(3):521-530

Belongs to Oligothyrina according to G. A. Cooper 1956

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is USNM 518q, Grapevine Canyon, Sacramento Mountains, which is in a Gzhelian carbonate limestone in the Holder Formation of New Mexico

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at USNM 518q, Grapevine Canyon, Sacramento Mountains

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