Orthospirifer Pitrat 1975 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae

Full reference: C. W. Pitrat. 1975. Orthospirifer new genus of Devonian spinocyrtiid brachiopods. Journal of Paleontology 49(2):387-394

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

See also Pitrat 1975

Sister taxa: Acutoria, Alatiformia, Carpinaria, Duryeella, Eosyringothyris, Incertia, Mediospirifer, Platyrachella, Spinocyrtia, Subcuspidella

Subtaxa: Orthospirifer mesastrialis Orthospirifer missouriensis

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Type: Orthospirifer missouriensis

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Givetian of France (1 collection), United States (1: Missouri)

• Devonian of Afghanistan (3), Canada (1: Ontario), United States (122: Illinois, Iowa, New York, Wisconsin), Venezuela (2)

• Silurian of Canada (1: Nunavut)

Total: 131 collections including 136 occurrences

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