Aphragmus sohli Cooper 1983 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae

Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1983. The Terebratulacea (Brachiopoda) Triassic to Recent: a study of the brachidia (loops). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 50:1-290

Belongs to Aphragmus according to G. A. Cooper 1983

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: USNM 550931a, a shell. Its type locality is La Goupillère hill, Le Mans area, which is in a Cenomanian marine sandstone in France.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at La Goupillère hill, Le Mans area

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