Terrakea Booker 1929 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Productida - Linoproductidae

Synonym: Saetosina Waterhouse 1986

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

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Pinegeria, Spargospinosa, Paucispinauria, Holotricharina, Cancrinella, Grandaurispina, Stepanoviella

Subtaxa: Saetosina multispinosa Terrakea arctica Terrakea arguta Terrakea borealis Terrakea brachythaera Terrakea dickinsi Terrakea echinata Terrakea elongata Terrakea etheridgei Terrakea exmoorensis Terrakea grandis Terrakea hemisphaeroidalis Terrakea japonica Terrakea korkodonensis Terrakea minima Terrakea nabekoshiyamensis Terrakea nalivkini Terrakea pollex Terrakea quadrata Terrakea rylstonensis Terrakea vernacula Terrakea yanagidai

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Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Australia (341 collections), Canada (14: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (1), India (1), Japan (6), Mongolia (3), New Zealand (18), the Russian Federation (16), Tajikistan (1)

• Carboniferous of United States (1: Alaska)

Total: 402 collections including 406 occurrences

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