Cartorhium Cooper and Grant 1976 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae

Full reference: G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant. 1976. Permian Brachiopods from West Texas, IV. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 21:1923-2607

Parent taxon: Neospiriferinae according to A. Williams et al. 2006

See also Sepkoski 2002, Tazawa and Shen 1997 and Waterhouse 2004

Sister taxa: Betaneospirifer, Blasispirifer, Costatispirifer, Crassispirifer, Cratispirifer, Fasciculatia, Fusispirifer, Fusispiriferinae, Gibbospirifer, Gypospirifer, Imperiospira, Kaninospirifer, Kaninospiriferinae, Lepidospirifer, Lutuginia, Maxwellispirifer, Neospirifer, Occidalia, Pondospirifer, Saltospirifer, Septospirifer, Simplicisulcus, Spiriferalaria, Tibetospirifer

Subtaxa: Cartorhium alisangensis Cartorhium chelomatum Cartorhium coristum Cartorhium imperfectum Cartorhium latum Cartorhium lunwalensis Cartorhium mexicanum Cartorhium multiradiatus Cartorhium orbiculatum Cartorhium retusum Cartorhium rhomboidalis Cartorhium twifurcifer Cartorhium vidriense Cartorhium xikouensis Cartorhium zoyei

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Afghanistan (4 collections), Australia (1), China (6), Iran (1), Japan (3), Malaysia (1), Oman (3), Pakistan (19), United States (110: Texas)

Total: 148 collections including 160 occurrences

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