Liosotella cooperi Coogan 1960 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Productida - Paucispiniferidae

Full reference: A. H. Coogan. 1960. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Permian Nosoni and Dekkas Formations (Bollibokka Group). University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 36(5):243-316

Belongs to Liosotella according to A. H. Coogan 1960

Sister taxa: Liosotella angustata, Liosotella compacta, Liosotella costata, Liosotella decimana, Liosotella grandicosta, Liosotella heilongjiangensis, Liosotella hemispherica, Liosotella irregularis, Liosotella magnirugosa, Liosotella miaolingensis, Liosotella minuscula, Liosotella mongugaensis, Liosotella opima, Liosotella parva, Liosotella popei, Liosotella proboscidea, Liosotella rotunda, Liosotella rugosa, Liosotella spinumbona, Liosotella subcylindrica, Liosotella subquadrata, Liosotella subrugosa, Liosotella tetragonalis, Liosotella texana, Liosotella wordensis

Type specimen: UCMP 35687, a shell. Its type locality is UCMP B-4619, Nosoni Creek, which is in a Roadian/Wordian deep-water shale in the Nosoni Formation of California.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at UCMP B-4619, Nosoni Creek

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