Oepikina speciosa Cooper 1956

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Furcitellidae

Alternative combination: Opikina speciosa

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

Belongs to Oepikina according to M. E. Patzkowsky and S. M. Holland 1997

See also Cooper 1956

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: USNM 117835a, a shell. Its type locality is 0.6 mile south of Chappel Hill Methodist Church on Tennessee Highway 28, which is in a Blackriveran shallow subtidal packstone/wackestone in the Ridley Limestone Formation of Tennessee.

Distribution:

• Ordovician of United States (5: Tennessee collections)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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