Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae
Full reference: S. H. Butts. 2007. Silicified Carboniferous (Chesterian) Brachiopoda of the Arco Hills Formation, Idaho. Journal of Paleontology 81(1):48-63
Belongs to Composita according to S. H. Butts 2007
Sister taxa: Athyris (Composita) indosinensis, Athyris (Composita) semirostrata, Composita affinis, Composita apheles, Composita apsidata, Composita argentea, Composita bamberi, Composita biforma, Composita bucculenta, Composita costata, Composita cracens, Composita crassa, Composita depressa, Composita discina, Composita elongata, Composita emarginata, Composita enormis, Composita girtyi, Composita globosa, Composita grandis, Composita hapsida, Composita huagongensis, Composita imbricata, Composita insulcata, Composita jogensis, Composita laevis, Composita lewisensis, Composita magnicarina, Composita mexicana, Composita minuscula, Composita mira, Composita misriensis, Composita nucella, Composita obesa, Composita ovata, Composita parasulcata, Composita pikensis, Composita pilula, Composita plana, Composita prospera, Composita pyriformis, Composita quadrirotunda, Composita quantilla, Composita rotunda, Composita sigma, Composita stalagmium, Composita strongyle, Composita subcircularis, Composita subquadrata, Composita subtilita, Composita sulcata, Composita tareica, Composita tetralobata, Composita tobaensis, Composita trinuclea
Type specimen: Its type locality is Arco Hills type section, packstone, which is in a Serpukhovian deep subtidal packstone in the Arco Hills Formation of Idaho
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of United States (2: Idaho collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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