Doleroides tennesseensis Cooper 1956 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plectorthidae

Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245

Belongs to Doleroides according to A. Williams 1962

See also Cooper 1956

Sister taxa: Doleroides germanus, Doleroides gibbosa, Doleroides mixticius, Doleroides panna, Doleroides winchelli

Type specimen: USNM 117034a, a shell

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at 650 yards south of Ardmillan House (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

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