Coledium Grant 1965 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae

Full reference: R. E. Grant. 1965. The brachiopod superfamily Stenoscismatacea. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Contributions 148(2):1-192

Parent taxon: Stenoscismatinae according to J. B. Waterhouse 2004

See also Brunton and Champion 1974, Grant 1965, Sepkoski 2002 and Williams et al. 2002

Sister taxa: Atribonium, Camerisma, Liufaia, Sedecularia, Sedenticellula, Stenoscisma, Torynechus

Subtaxa: Coledium altisulcatum Coledium angarium Coledium bowsheri Coledium cestriensis Coledium cheni Coledium costacurtosus Coledium costulatum Coledium crassa Coledium dutroi Coledium elvinia Coledium erugatum Coledium evexum Coledium explanatum Coledium globulinum Coledium indentatum Coledium obesum Coledium opimum Coledium rhomboidale Coledium rhomboidea Coledium saquensis Coledium satuni Coledium selongensis Coledium therum Coledium torvum Coledium undulatum Coledium vadosulcatum

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Australia (8 collections), China (4), Indonesia (1), Mexico (1), Nepal (1), Pakistan (2), Slovenia (1), the United Kingdom (10), United States (2: Texas)

• Namurian of Thailand (1)

• Carboniferous of Australia (7), China (1), the Czech Republic (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (34: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)

• Devonian of United States (1: Indiana)

Total: 83 collections including 91 occurrences

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