Coledium bowsheri Cooper 1956 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae

Alternative combination: Stenoscisma bowsheri

Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. New Pennsylvanian Brachiopods. Journal of Paleontology 30(3):521-530

Belongs to Coledium according to R. E. Grant 1965

See also Cooper 1956

Sister taxa: Coledium altisulcatum, Coledium angarium, Coledium cestriensis, Coledium cheni, Coledium costacurtosus, Coledium costulatum, Coledium crassa, Coledium dutroi, Coledium elvinia, Coledium erugatum, Coledium evexum, Coledium explanatum, Coledium globulinum, Coledium indentatum, Coledium obesum, Coledium opimum, Coledium rhomboidale, Coledium rhomboidea, Coledium saquensis, Coledium satuni, Coledium selongensis, Coledium therum, Coledium torvum, Coledium undulatum, Coledium vadosulcatum

Type specimen: Its type locality is USNM 518q, Grapevine Canyon, Sacramento Mountains, which is in a Gzhelian carbonate limestone in the Holder Formation of New Mexico

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at USNM 518q, Grapevine Canyon, Sacramento Mountains

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