Deltachania Waterhouse 1971 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1971. Appendix 2: systematic description of new brachiopod species and genera, in Carboniferous and Permian Stratigraphy and Paleontology, Northern Yukon Territory, Canada. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology 19(1):205-234

Parent taxon: Cleiothyridininae according to A. Williams et al. 2002

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Bajtugania, Carteridina, Cleiothyridina, Crinisarina, Himathyris, Leiothycridina, Pinegathyris, Rawdonia

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Deltachania in the database

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