Scenesia Cooper and Grant 1976 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Paeckelmanellidae

Full reference: G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant. 1976. Permian Brachiopods of west Texas, V. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 24:2609-3159

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

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Scenesia extensa

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Type: Scenesia extensa

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at USNM708u, Split Tank, Glass Mountains (Permian of Texas)

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