Isophragma ponderosum Cooper 1956 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Plectambonitidae

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

Belongs to Isophragma according to G. A. Cooper 1956

Sister taxa: Isophragma extensum, Isophragma orientale, Isophragma parallelum, Isophragma pseudoretroflexum, Isophragma ricevillense, Isophragma subabbreviatum

Type specimen: USNM 123259a. Its type locality is 2 miles north of Martin's Ridge, which is in a Mohawkian carbonate limestone in the Copenhagen Formation of Nevada.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Ordovician of United States (2: Nevada collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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