Brachyspirifer pinyonoides Johnson 1970 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae

Full reference: J. G. Johnson. 1970. Great Basin Lower Devonian Brachiopoda. Geological Society of America Special Paper (131)1-421

Belongs to Brachyspirifer according to J. G. Johnson 1970

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: USNM 157218. Its type locality is USNM 10762. Horse Creek Valley Quadrangle, northern Simpson Park Range, which is in an Emsian marine limestone in the McColley Canyon Formation of Nevada.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Devonian of United States (5: Nevada collections)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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