Costellispirifer (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae

Synonym: Concinnispirifer

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

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Antispirifer, Arduspirifer, Australospirifer, Brachyspirifer, Dixonella, Dyticospirifer, Euryspirifer, Hysterolites, Otospirifer, Paraspirifer, Patriaspirifer, Rostrospirifer, Trigonospirifer, Xinjiangospirifer

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Aspidocrinus scutelliformis Assoc., Becraft Limestone, Greene County, NY (Devonian of New York)

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