Chonetoidea radiatula Barrande 1879 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Aegiromenidae

Alternative combinations: Chonetes radiatulus, Chonetoidea radiatulus

Synonyms: Chonetoidea papillosa Reed 1905, Plectambonites papillosa Reed 1905

Full reference: J. Barrande. 1879. Classe des Mollusques. Ordre des Brachiopodes. Systême silurien du centre de la Bohême. Iére partie. Recherches paléontologiques 5:1-226

Belongs to Chonetoidea according to L. R. M. Cocks 2014

See also Barrande 1879, Cocks 2010, Havlicek 1967, Jin and Chatterton 1997, Popov and Cocks 2014 and Reed 1905

Sister taxa: Chonetoidea enbektenensis, Chonetoidea homolensis, Chonetoidea iduna, Chonetoidea obliqua

Type specimens:

  • Chonetoidea radiatula: CD 1569, a valve (dorsal internal mould)
  • Chonetoidea papillosa: SM A11311, a valve (dorsal internal valve).

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Ordovician of Canada (5: Québec collections), the Czech Republic (1), Morocco (1), the United Kingdom (14)

Total: 21 collections each including a single occurrence

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