†Rhipidomena fillocostellata Cooper 1956 (lamp shell)
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Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245
Belongs to Rhipidomena according to G. A. Cooper 1956
Sister taxa: Rhipidomena mesleri, Rhipidomena subparallela, Rhipidomena tennesseensis, Rhipidomena tenuitesta
Type specimen: USNM 117671a, a valve. Its type locality is 1 mile by road northwest of Big Springs, Binfield, which is in a Blackriveran marine sandstone in the Sevier Shale Formation of Tennessee.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at 1 mile by road northwest of Big Springs, Binfield
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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