Tritoechia quebecensis Ulrich and Foerste 1936 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae

Full reference: E. O. Ulrich and A. F. Foerste. 1936. New Genera of Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods. Journal of the Scientific Laboratories of Denison University 30:259-290

Belongs to Tritoechia according to E. O. Ulrich and G. A. Cooper 1938

See also Ulrich and Foerste 1936

Sister taxa: Tritoechia (Parvitritoechia), Tritoechia (Tritoechia), Tritoechia alta, Tritoechia billingsi, Tritoechia careyi, Tritoechia crassa, Tritoechia delicatula, Tritoechia florentinensis, Tritoechia karmbergensis, Tritoechia kendyktasica, Tritoechia lewisi, Tritoechia mollesensis, Tritoechia sinuata, Tritoechia tokmakensis, Tritoechia typica

Type specimen: USNM 91741a-g. Its type locality is near Philipsburg, which is in a Tremadocian carbonate limestone in the Hastings Creek Formation of Canada.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at near Philipsburg

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