Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Full reference: M. G. Bassett. 1977. The articulate Brachiopods from the Wenlock Series of the Welsh Borderland and South Wales, 4. Palaeontographical Society Monographs 130(547):123-176
Belongs to Leptaena according to O. A. Hoel 2005
See also Bassett 1977
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 rara, Leptaena rhomboidalis, Leptaena richmondensis, Leptaena rugaurita, Leptaena rugosa, Leptaena salopiensis, Leptaena semiradiata, 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: BGS GSM.12683, a valve (ventral valve). Its type locality is Woolhope, which is in a Sheinwoodian deep subtidal shelf limestone/shale in the Woolhope Limestone Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Silurian of Sweden (6 collections), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
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