Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Full reference: F. B. Kelly. 1967. Silurian leptaenids (Brachiopoda). Palaeontology 10(4):590-602
Belongs to Leptaena according to F. B. Kelly 1967
Sister taxa: Leptaena (Leptaena), Leptaena (Ygdrasilomena), Leptaena acuticuspidata, Leptaena aequalis, Leptaena alliku, Leptaena amelia, Leptaena analogaeformis, Leptaena arberae, Leptaena argentina, Leptaena borghiana, Leptaena boyaca, Leptaena contermina, Leptaena convexa, Leptaena cooperi, Leptaena croma, Leptaena crypta, Leptaena cryptoides, Leptaena dejecta, Leptaena delicata, Leptaena electra, Leptaena ennessbe, Leptaena gibbosa, Leptaena holcrofti, Leptaena indigena, Leptaena ingrica, Leptaena kentuckiana, Leptaena lappa, Leptaena lappina, Leptaena lemniscata, Leptaena limbifera, Leptaena minuta, Leptaena moniquensis, Leptaena nanaformis, Leptaena nassichuki, Leptaena odeon, Leptaena oklahomensis, Leptaena orhor, Leptaena parvirugata, Leptaena parvissima, Leptaena paucirugata, Leptaena praequalis, Leptaena provellerosa, Leptaena purpurea, Leptaena quadrata, Leptaena rara, Leptaena rhomboidalis, Leptaena richmondensis, Leptaena rugaurita, Leptaena rugosa, Leptaena salopiensis, Leptaena semiradiata, Leptaena sperion, Leptaena tenuissimestriata, Leptaena valida, Leptaena veldrensis, Leptaena vellerosa, Leptaena ventricosa, Leptaena ventricosa, Leptaena wesenbergensis, Leptaena zeta, Leptaena ziegleri, Orhoria lappina, Orhoria lappa, Kurnamena palmrei, Kurnamena acuta, Kurnamena rugosoides, Kurnamena spumifera, Kurnamena laterorugata, Kurnamena taxilla, Leptaenopoma trifidium, Similoleptaena crassorugata, Similoleptaena undosa, Similoleptaena pertenuis, Similoleptaena friedrichi, Similoleptaena planitia, Similoleptaena tarwanpensis
Type specimen: BU 889, a shell. Its type locality is 210 - 250 m SW of Caves Public House, west side of Wren's Nest Hill, Dudley, which is in a Homerian shallow subtidal limestone in the Much Wenlock Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at 210 - 250 m SW of Caves Public House, west side of Wren's Nest Hill, Dudley
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