†Ctenalosia Cooper and Stehli 1955 (lamp shell)
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Strophomenata - Productida - Aulostegidae
Full reference: G. A. Cooper and F.G. Stehli. 1955. New genera of Permian brachiopods from west Texas. Journal of Paleontology 29(3):469-474
Parent taxon: Ctenalosiinae according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxon: Mongolosia
Subtaxa: Ctenalosia fixata Ctenalosia primitiva Ctenalosia rotunda Ctenalosia transversa
Type: Ctenalosia fixata
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of United States (83: Nevada, Texas, Utah, Wyoming collections)
Total: 83 collections including 89 occurrences
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