Kilbuchomena Candela and Harper 2009 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Leptellinidae

Full reference: Y. Candela and D. A. T. Harper. 2009. Late Ordovician (Katian) brachiopods from the Southern Uplands of Scotland: biogeographic patterns on the edge of Laurentia. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 100(3):253-274

Parent taxon: Leptellininae according to Y. Candela and D. A. T. Harper 2009

Sister taxa: Acculina, Bekkerella, Benignites, Dulankarella, Kajnaria, Leptastichidia, Leptellina, Leptelloidea, Mabella, Reversella, Shlyginia

Subtaxa: Kilbuchomena prima

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Type: Kilbuchomena prima

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Kilbucho (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

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