†Xysila astaca Copper 1995 (lamp shell)
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Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Protozygidae
Full reference: P. Copper. 1995. Five new genera of Late Ordovician - Early Silurian brachiopods from Anticosti Island, eastern Canada. Journal of Paleontology 69(5):846-861
Belongs to Xysila according to P. Copper 1995
Sister taxa: Xysila anticostiana, Xysila mogoktaensis
Type specimen: Gs85109, a shell (complete shell). Its type locality is A379, which is in a Katian carbonate mudstone in the Vaureal Formation of Canada.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at A379
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