†Platymena bellatula Cooper 1956 (lamp shell)
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Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Glyptomenidae
Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245
Belongs to Platymena according to G. A. Cooper 1956
Sister taxa: Platymena amara, Platymena plana, Platymena tersa
Type specimen: USNM 117758, a shell. Its type locality is Sec. 17. Spring Creek, which is in a Blackriveran offshore ramp lime mudstone/shale in the Bromide Formation of Oklahoma.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Ordovician of United States (3: Oklahoma collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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