Rhipidomena fillocostellata Cooper 1956 (lamp shell)

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

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