Probolarina breviostris Cooper 1988 (brachiopod)

Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae

Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1988. Some Tertiary Brachiopods of the East Coast of the United States. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology (64)1-27

Belongs to Probolarina according to G. A. Cooper 1988

Sister taxa: Probolarina holmesi, Probolarina salpinx, Probolarina transversa

Type specimen: USNM 551527, a shell. Its type locality is East Coast Construction Co. Quarry (Castle Hayne LS, N. Carolina), which is in a Bartonian marine grainstone in the Castle Hayne Formation of North Carolina.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at East Coast Construction Co. Quarry (Castle Hayne LS, N. Carolina)

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