Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Anazygidae
Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245
Belongs to Zygospira according to G. A. Cooper 1956
Sister taxa: Zygospira deflecta, Zygospira fallax, Zygospira gutta, Zygospira kentuckiensis, Zygospira matutina, Zygospira meafordensis, Zygospira modesta, Zygospira resupinata, Zygospira sulcata
Type specimen: USNM 111377a, a valve (brachial valve). Its type locality is Shelbyville, which is in a Blackriveran shallow subtidal carbonate/mudstone in the Lebanon Limestone Formation of Tennessee.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Ordovician of United States (74: Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Tennessee, Virginia collections)
Total: 74 collections each including a single occurrence
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