Kilbuchomena prima Candela and Harper 2009 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Leptellinidae

= 2003 Leptelllininae gen. et sp. indet.; Candela, p. 35, pl. 5, figs 13-18.

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

Belongs to Kilbuchomena according to Y. Candela and D. A. T. Harper 2009

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NMS.G.2005.109.1 (external and internal moulds of ventral and dorsal valves). Its type locality is Kilbucho, which is in a Cheneyan marine mudstone in the Kirkcolm Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Kilbucho

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