Spirifer (Neospirifer) mexicanus latus King 1931 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae

Full reference: R. E. King. 1931. The Geology of the Glass Mountains, Texas, Part II, Faunal summary and correlation of the Permian formations with description of Brachiopoda. The University of Texas Bulletin 3042:1-245

Belongs to Spirifer (Neospirifer) mexicanus according to R. E. King 1931

See also Cooper and Grant 1976

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: YPM 12504, a shell (Articulated shell). Its type locality is R.E. King 123, Leonard Mountain, Glass Mountains, which is in a Kungurian carbonate limestone in the Cathedral Mountain Formation of Texas.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Spirifer (Neospirifer) mexicanus latus in the database

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