†Sigmelasma pantherae Potter 1990 (lamp shell)
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Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Wangyuiidae
Full reference: A. W. Potter. 1990. Middle and Late Ordovician brachiopods from the eastern Klamath Mountains, northern California. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 212(1-6):31-158
Belongs to Sigmelasma according to A. W. Potter 1990
Sister taxon: Sigmelasma peepi
Type specimen: Its type locality is Lover's Leap, USNM 18122, cl1, which is in a Llandeilian carbonate limestone/conglomerate in the Kangaroo Creek Formation of California.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Ordovician of United States (23: California collections)
Total: 23 collections each including a single occurrence
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