Strophomenata - Productida - Araksalosiidae
Full reference: H. Muir-Wood and G. A. Cooper. 1960. Morphology, classification and life habits of the Productoidea (Brachiopoda). Geological Society of America Memoir 81:1-447
Parent taxon: Araksalosiinae according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Campbell and Engel 1963, Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Araksalosia, Hamlingella, Ruthiphiala, Whidbornella
Subtaxa: Acanthatia nupera Acanthatia rangariensis
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Australia (2 collections), Libya (1)
• Devonian of Libya (2), United States (9: Colorado, New Mexico, Ohio)
Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence
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