†Eremotoechia alabamensis Cooper 1956 (lamp shell)
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Strophomenata - Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae
Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245
Belongs to Eremotoechia according to G. A. Cooper 1956
Sister taxa: Eremotoechia cloudi, Eremotoechia inchoata, Eremotoechia silicica, Eremotoechia spissa
Type specimen: USNM 117060b. Its type locality is 0.5 miles north of Pelham , which is in a Chazyan carbonate limestone in the Little Oak Formation of Alabama.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at 0.5 miles north of Pelham
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