Leptaena orhor Havlicek and Storch 1990 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae

Alternative combination: Orhoria orhor

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 croma, 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 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, Orhoria lappina, Orhoria lappa, Leptaenopoma trifidium, Similoleptaena planitia, Similoleptaena crassorugata, Similoleptaena friedrichi, Similoleptaena pertenuis, Similoleptaena undosa, Similoleptaena ingrica, Similoleptaena tarwanpensis, Kurnamena spumifera, Kurnamena palmrei, Kurnamena taxilla, Kurnamena rugosoides, Kurnamena acuta, Kurnamena laterorugata

Type specimen: VH 4406b, a valve (Pedicle valve)

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Sepatrypa lissodermis-Cyrtia maior Community, Prague Basin (Silurian of Czech Republic)

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