Eccentrotheca Landing et al. 1980 (lamp shell)

Brachiopoda - Tommotiida

Full reference: E. Landing, G. S. Nowlan, and T. P. Fletcher. 1980. A microfauna associated with Early Cambrian trilobites of the Callavia Zone, northern Antigonish Highlands, Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 17(3):400-418

Parent taxon: Tommotiida according to C. B. Skovsted et al. 2015

See also Balthasar et al. 2009, Hinz 1987, Landing 1984, Sepkoski 2002 and Skovsted et al. 2008

Sister taxa: Kelanellidae, Kennardiidae, Kulparina, Lapworthellidae, Mitrosagophora, Paterimitra, Porcauricula, Shetlandia, Sunnaginiidae, Tannuolinidae, Tommotiidae, Wufengella

Subtaxa: Eccentrotheca kanesia

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Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cambrian of Australia (3 collections), Canada (15: Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia), the United Kingdom (6), United States (6: Massachusetts)

• Placentian of Canada (2: Nova Scotia), United States (9: Massachusetts)

Total: 41 collections each including a single occurrence

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