Kullervo sulcata Cooper 1956 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Billingsellida - Gonambonitidae

Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245

Belongs to Kullervo according to G. A. Cooper 1956

Sister taxa: Kullervo aluverensis, Kullervo complectens, Kullervo grandis, Kullervo intacta, Kullervo lacunata, Kullervo ornata, Kullervo panderi, Kullervo parva

Type specimen: USNM 117017, a valve. Its type locality is 0.2 miles southeast of Pratt Ferry, which is in a Chazyan open shallow subtidal limestone in the Pratt Ferry Formation of Alabama.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at 0.2 miles southeast of Pratt Ferry

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