†Eospinatrypa Cooper 1973 (lamp shell)
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Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Atrypidae
Parent taxon: Spinatrypinae according to A. Williams et al. 2002
See also Jin and Chatterton 1997 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Catatrypa, Invertrypa, Isospinatrypa, Oglu, Punctspinatrypa, Spinatrypa, Spinatrypina
Subtaxa: Eospinatrypa bullata Eospinatrypa nodostriata Eospinatrypa sagana
Type: Atrypa nodostriata
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Whitwellian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories collections)
• Silurian of Canada (5: Northwest Territories, Nunavut), the Czech Republic (1), United States (16: California, Indiana, New York)
Total: 25 collections including 28 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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