Syntrophia nonus Walcott 1924 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Syntrophiidae

Full reference: C. D. Walcott. 1924. Cambrian and Ozarkian Brachiopoda, Ozarkian Cephalopods and Notostraca. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 67:477-554

Belongs to Syntrophia according to C. D. Walcott 1924

Sister taxa: Syntrophia abnormis, Syntrophia alata, Syntrophia barabuensis, Syntrophia billingsi, Syntrophia cambria, Syntrophia campbelli, Syntrophia nundina, Syntrophia orientalis, Syntrophia primordialis, Syntrophia rotundata, Syntrophia sanjuanina, Syntrophia unxia

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at 66n. Cordilleran area from Glacier Lake near the head of the Saskatchewan River (Ordovician of Alberta)

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