Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Alternative combination: Turgenostrophia rara
Full reference: R. E. Alekseeva and O. A. Erlanger. 1983. Novyy kompleks siluriyskikh brakhiopod severo-zapadnoy Mongolii. The new assemblage of silurian brachiopods in the North-West Mongolia. Trudy - Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya 20:25-36
Belongs to Leptaena according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Alekseeva and Erlanger 1983
Sister taxa: Leptaena (Leptaena), Leptaena (Ygdrasilomena), Leptaena acuticuspidata, Leptaena aequalis, Leptaena alliku, Leptaena amelia, Leptaena analogaeformis, Leptaena arberae, Leptaena argentina, Leptaena borghiana, Leptaena boyaca, 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 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 ingrica, Similoleptaena undosa, Similoleptaena crassorugata, Similoleptaena planitia, Similoleptaena friedrichi, Similoleptaena tarwanpensis, Similoleptaena pertenuis, Leptaenopoma trifidium, Orhoria lappa, Orhoria lappina, Kurnamena laterorugata, Kurnamena spumifera, Kurnamena rugosoides, Kurnamena taxilla, Kurnamena acuta, Kurnamena palmrei
Type specimen: Its type locality is Silurian brachiopods of North-West Mongolia, Yamatu-Gol River, which is in a Wenlock/Ludlow marine limestone/shale in Mongolia
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Silurian brachiopods of North-West Mongolia, Yamatu-Gol River
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