Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245
Belongs to Rafinesquina according to Y. Candela and D. A. T. Harper 2014
See also Cooper 1956 and Williams 1962
Sister taxa: Rafinesquina (Playfairia), Rafinesquina (Rafinesquina), Rafinesquina alternata, Rafinesquina declivis, Rafinesquina delicata, Rafinesquina deltoidea, Rafinesquina gibbosa, Rafinesquina insidiosa, Rafinesquina jeffersonensis, Rafinesquina latisculptilis, Rafinesquina lignani, Rafinesquina mesicosta, Rafinesquina mucronata, Rafinesquina nasuta, Rafinesquina percensis, Rafinesquina ponderosa, Rafinesquina praecursor, Rafinesquina pseudoloricata, Rafinesquina relicua, Rafinesquina stropheodontoides, Rafinesquina trentonensis, Rafinesquina ultrix, Rafinesquina urbicola, Rafinesquina winchesterensis
Type specimen: USNM 123281a, a valve (pedicle valve). 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 (1 collection), United States (1: Virginia)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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