Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1979. Tertiary and Cretaceous Brachiopods from Cuba and the Caribbean. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 37:1-45
Belongs to Tichosina according to G. A. Cooper 1979
Sister taxa: Tichosina abrupta, Tichosina bahamiensis, Tichosina barschi, Tichosina bartletti, Tichosina cubensis, Tichosina erecta, Tichosina expansa, Tichosina floridensis, Tichosina guppyi, Tichosina inconstanta, Tichosina insolita, Tichosina lecta, Tichosina martinicensis, Tichosina ovata, Tichosina rotundovata, Tichosina subtriangulata, Tichosina trinitatensis, Tichosina truncata
Type specimen: USNM 818h. Its type locality is USNM Loc. 818h, Facey Creek, Antigua, which is in an Oligocene marine horizon in Antigua and Barbuda.
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at USNM Loc. 818h, Facey Creek, Antigua
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