Leptaena boyaca Caster 1939 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae

Full reference: K. E. Caster. 1939. A Devonian fauna from Colombia. Bulletins of American Paleontology 24(83):1-218

Belongs to Leptaena according to K. E. Caster 1939

Sister taxa: Leptaena (Leptaena), Leptaena (Ygdrasilomena), Leptaena acuticuspidata, Leptaena aequalis, Leptaena alliku, Leptaena amelia, Leptaena analogaeformis, Leptaena arberae, Leptaena argentina, Leptaena borghiana, Leptaena contermina, Leptaena convexa, Leptaena cooperi, Leptaena croma, Leptaena crypta, Leptaena cryptoides, Leptaena dejecta, Leptaena delicata, Leptaena electra, Leptaena ennessbe, Leptaena gibbosa, Leptaena holcrofti, Leptaena indigena, Leptaena kentuckiana, Leptaena lappa, Leptaena lappina, Leptaena lemniscata, Leptaena limbifera, Leptaena moniquensis, Leptaena nanaformis, Leptaena nassichuki, Leptaena odeon, Leptaena oklahomensis, Leptaena orhor, Leptaena parvirugata, Leptaena parvissima, Leptaena paucirugata, Leptaena poulseni, Leptaena praequalis, Leptaena provellerosa, Leptaena purpurea, Leptaena quadrata, Leptaena rara, Leptaena rhomboidalis, Leptaena richmondensis, Leptaena rugaurita, Leptaena rugosa, Leptaena salopiensis, Leptaena semiradiata, Leptaena sperion, Leptaena tenuissimestriata, Leptaena valida, Leptaena veldrensis, Leptaena vellerosa, Leptaena ventricosa, Leptaena ventricosa, Leptaena zeta, Leptaena ziegleri, Similoleptaena tarwanpensis, Similoleptaena undosa, Similoleptaena crassorugata, Similoleptaena ingrica, Similoleptaena planitia, Similoleptaena pertenuis, Similoleptaena friedrichi, Leptaenopoma trifidium, Kurnamena laterorugata, Kurnamena rugosoides, Kurnamena palmrei, Kurnamena acuta, Kurnamena spumifera, Kurnamena taxilla, Orhoria lappa, Orhoria lappina

Type specimen: Its type locality is On the N side of the small village of Floresta, which is in a Frasnian marine shale in the Floresta-Labateca Formation of Colombia

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at On the N side of the small village of Floresta

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