Brachiopoda - Tommotiida - Sunnaginiidae
Full reference: A. Y. Rozanov, V. V. Missarzhevsky, N. A. Volkova, L. G. Voronova, I. N. Krylov, B.M. Keller, I. K. Korolyuk, K. Lendzion, R. Mikhnyar, N. G. Pykhova, and A. D. Sidorov. 1969. Tommotskiu jarus i problema nizhney granisty kembriya [The Tommotian Stage and the Cambrian lower Boundary problem]. Trudy Geoligske Institut Leningrad 206:1-379
Parent taxon: Sunnaginiidae according to E. Landing 1984
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Skovsted et al. 2008
Sister taxon: Jaycea
Subtaxa: Sunnaginia imbricata
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Placentian of United States (6: Massachusetts collections)
• Cambrian of Australia (3), Canada (11: Nova Scotia), the Russian Federation (7), the United Kingdom (7), United States (4: Massachusetts)
Total: 38 collections each including a single occurrence
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