Systenothyris triangulata Cooper 1983 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae

Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1983. The Terebratulacea (Brachiopoda) Triassic to Recent: a study of the brachidia (loops). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 50:1-290

Belongs to Systenothyris according to G. A. Cooper 1983

Sister taxa: Ptychtothyris baylei, Ptychtothyris stephani, Ptyctothyris biplicata, Ptyctothyris daghaniensis, Ptyctothyris hardgravensis, Ptyctothyris niortensis, Ptyctothyris phlegethontis, Ptyctothyris quillyensis, Ptyctothyris remisovi, Ptyctothyris subcanaliculata

Type specimen: USNM 550996, a shell. Its type locality is Abandoned quarry at Sully, Calvados, which is in a Bajocian carbonate limestone in the Oolite Blanche Formation of France.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Abandoned quarry at Sully, Calvados

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