Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Full reference: J. G. Johnson, A. J. Boucot, and M. A. Murphy. 1973. Pridolian and early Gedinnian age brachiopods from the Roberts Mountains Formation of central Nevada. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 100:1-75
Belongs to Schizophoria according to J. G. Johnson et al. 1973
Sister taxa: Orthis (Schizophoria) iowensis, Orthis (Schizophoria) subquadrata, Schizophoria (Eoschizophoria), Schizophoria (Rhenoschizophoria), Schizophoria (Schizophoria), Schizophoria amanaensis, Schizophoria annanaensis, Schizophoria chouteauensis, Schizophoria depressa, Schizophoria fragilis, Schizophoria kintaensis, Schizophoria kutsingensis, Schizophoria lata, Schizophoria nevadaensis, Schizophoria parenteletiformis, Schizophoria peculiaris, Schizophoria poststriatula, Schizophoria resupinata, Schizophoria rhomboidalis, Schizophoria striatula, Schizophoria striatula, Schizophoria sulcata, Schizophoria supracarbonica, Schizophoria swallowi, Schizophoria tani, Schizophoria upensis, Schizophoria verulamensis, Schizophoria vulvaria
Type specimen: Its type locality is UCR 5462, west of Willow Creek, Roberts Mountain, which is in a Lochkovian offshore shelf limestone in the Roberts Mountain Formation of Nevada
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Canada (7: Yukon collections), United States (6: Nevada)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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