Strophomenata - Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae
Full reference: E. O. Ulrich and G. A. Cooper. 1938. Ozarkian and Canadian Brachiopoda. Geological Society of America Special Paper 13(8):1-323
Belongs to Tritoechia according to E. O. Ulrich and G. A. Cooper 1938
Sister taxa: Tritoechia (Parvitritoechia), Tritoechia (Tritoechia), Tritoechia billingsi, Tritoechia careyi, Tritoechia crassa, Tritoechia delicatula, Tritoechia florentinensis, Tritoechia karmbergensis, Tritoechia kendyktasica, Tritoechia lewisi, Tritoechia mollesensis, Tritoechia quebecensis, Tritoechia sinuata, Tritoechia tokmakensis, Tritoechia typica
Type specimen: USNM 91711a, a shell. Its type locality is northeast shoulder of Fossil Mountain, 8.7 miles northeast of Lake Louise, which is in a Stairsian/Blackhillsian marine shale in the Outram Formation of Canada.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Nevada collection)
• Ordovician of Canada (1: Alberta), United States (1: Nevada)
• Ibexian of United States (1: Nevada)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
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