Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245
Parent taxon: Strophomeninae according to C. R. Congreve et al. 2019
See also Cooper 1956, Sepkoski 2002 and Williams et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Actinomena, Drummuckina, Esilia, Gunnarella, Holtedahlina, Infurca, Leigerina, Longvillia, Ochyromena, Pseudostrophomena, Rugomena, Saxbyonia, Semnanostrophia, Strophomena, Tetraphalerella
Subtaxa: Rhipidomena fillocostellata Rhipidomena mesleri Rhipidomena subparallela Rhipidomena tennesseensis Rhipidomena tenuitesta
Type: Strophomena tennesseensis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Chazyan of United States (3: Tennessee, Virginia collections)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Virginia)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (1: Québec)
• Ordovician of Canada (1: Quebec), China (1), Kazakhstan (1), Mongolia (1), United States (45: Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia)
Total: 54 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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