Reuschella americana Cooper 1956 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Harknessellidae

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

Belongs to Reuschella according to Y. Candela and D. A. T. Harper 2014

See also Cooper 1956 and Williams 1962

Sister taxa: Reuschella herreraensis, Reuschella horderleyensis, Reuschella inexpectata, Reuschella magna

Type specimen: USNM 110840b, a shell. Its type locality is 0.6 mile northwest of Linville Station, which is in a Turinian marginal marine sandstone in the Oranda Formation of Virginia.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Ordovician of the United Kingdom (2 collections), United States (1: Virginia)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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