Plancella Amsden 1985 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Meristellidae

Full reference: T. W. Amsden. 1985. Brachiopods from the Turkey Creek Limestone (Early Devonian), Marshall County, southern Oklahoma. Oklahoma Geological Survey Bulletin 138:1-20

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

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Arctomeristina, Charionella, Charionoides, Hindella, Imdentistella, Meristella, Meristelloides, Meristina, Pentagonia, Pseudomeristina

Subtaxa: Plancella turkiensis

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Type: Plancella turkiensis

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Section Ma2, Turkey Creek (Devonian of Oklahoma)

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