Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Full reference: J. Jin, W. G. E. Caldwell, and B. S. Norford. 1997. Late Ordovician brachiopods and biostratigraphy of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, northern Manitoba and Ontario. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Canada 513:1-115
Belongs to Tetraphalerella according to J. Jin and R.-b. Zhan 2001
See also Jin et al. 1997
Sister taxa: Strophomena (Tetraphalerella) cooperi, Strophomena (Tetraphalerella) namasensis, Tetraphalerella bestiubensis, Tetraphalerella costellata, Tetraphalerella hecuba, Tetraphalerella musculosa, Tetraphalerella neglecta, Tetraphalerella planobesa, Tetraphalerella planodorsata
Type specimen: Its type locality is GSC loc. 25272. Bad Cache Rapids, right bank of Churchill River., which is in a Maysvillian carbonate limestone in the Surprise Creek Formation of Canada.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Ordovician of Canada (7: Manitoba collections)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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