Liosotella Cooper 1953 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Productida - Paucispiniferidae

Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1953. Sponges, Brachiopoda, Pelecypoda, and Scaphopoda. Permian fauna at El Antimonio, western Sonora, Mexico. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 119(2):21-80

Parent taxon: Paucispiniferini according to A. Williams et al. 2000

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Anemonaria, Caricula, Caucasoproductus, Elliottella, Hexiproductus, Hystriculina, Jiguliconcha, Jinomarginifera, Lamnimargus, Lampangella, Oncosarina, Paucispinifera, Retimarginifera, Shanxiproductus, Transennatia

Subtaxa: Liosotella angustata Liosotella compacta Liosotella cooperi 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

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Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Canada (6: Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon collections), China (9), Croatia (1), Greenland (20), Malaysia (1), Mexico (27), Mongolia (8), the Russian Federation (1), United States (125: Alaska, California, Idaho, New Mexico, Texas, Wyoming)

Total: 198 collections including 235 occurrences

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