Leptaena croma Havlicek and Storch 1990 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae

Alternative combination: Orhoria croma

Full reference: V. Havlicek and P. Storch. 1990. Silurian brachiopods and benthic communities in the Prague Basin (Czechoslovakia). Rozpravy Ustredniho Ustavu Geologickeho Svazek 48:1-275

Belongs to Leptaena according to V. Havlicek and P. Storch 1999

See also Havlicek and Storch 1990

Sister taxa: Leptaena (Leptaena), Leptaena (Ygdrasilomena), Leptaena acuticuspidata, Leptaena aequalis, Leptaena alliku, Leptaena amelia, Leptaena analogaeformis, Leptaena arberae, Leptaena argentina, Leptaena borghiana, Leptaena boyaca, Leptaena contermina, Leptaena convexa, Leptaena cooperi, Leptaena crypta, Leptaena cryptoides, Leptaena dejecta, Leptaena delicata, Leptaena electra, Leptaena ennessbe, Leptaena gibbosa, Leptaena holcrofti, Leptaena indigena, Leptaena kentuckiana, Leptaena lappa, Leptaena lappina, Leptaena lemniscata, Leptaena limbifera, Leptaena moniquensis, Leptaena nanaformis, Leptaena nassichuki, Leptaena odeon, Leptaena oklahomensis, Leptaena orhor, Leptaena parvirugata, Leptaena parvissima, Leptaena paucirugata, Leptaena poulseni, Leptaena praequalis, Leptaena provellerosa, Leptaena purpurea, Leptaena quadrata, Leptaena rara, Leptaena rhomboidalis, Leptaena richmondensis, Leptaena rugaurita, Leptaena rugosa, Leptaena salopiensis, Leptaena semiradiata, Leptaena sperion, Leptaena tenuissimestriata, Leptaena valida, Leptaena veldrensis, Leptaena vellerosa, Leptaena ventricosa, Leptaena ventricosa, Leptaena zeta, Leptaena ziegleri, Leptaenopoma trifidium, Kurnamena acuta, Kurnamena taxilla, Kurnamena palmrei, Kurnamena rugosoides, Kurnamena laterorugata, Kurnamena spumifera, Similoleptaena crassorugata, Similoleptaena planitia, Similoleptaena pertenuis, Similoleptaena ingrica, Similoleptaena undosa, Similoleptaena friedrichi, Similoleptaena tarwanpensis, Orhoria lappa, Orhoria lappina

Type specimen: VH 4282a, a valve (Pedicle valve)

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Dlouha hora near Beroun (Silurian of Czech Republic)

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