Probolarina transversa Cooper 1988 (lamp shell)

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 breviostris, Probolarina holmesi, Probolarina salpinx

Type specimen: USNM 551517a, a shell. Its type locality is Martin Marietta Berkeley Quarry, which is in a Lutetian shallow subtidal limestone in the Santee Limestone Formation of South Carolina.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Martin Marietta Berkeley Quarry

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