Leptaena kentuckiana Pope 1982 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae

Full reference: J. K. Pope. 1982. Some silicifled strophomenacean brachiopods from the Ordovician of Kentucky, with comments on the genus Pionomena. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066(L):1-30

Belongs to Leptaena according to J. K. Pope 1982

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 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, Orhoria lappina, Orhoria lappa, Leptaenopoma trifidium, Similoleptaena planitia, Similoleptaena crassorugata, Similoleptaena friedrichi, Similoleptaena pertenuis, Similoleptaena undosa, Similoleptaena ingrica, Similoleptaena tarwanpensis, Kurnamena spumifera, Kurnamena palmrei, Kurnamena taxilla, Kurnamena rugosoides, Kurnamena acuta, Kurnamena laterorugata

Type specimen: USNM 245367, a valve (ventral valve). Its type locality is USGS 5136-CO. abandoned Clara Wilham Quarry, which is in a Maysvillian open shallow subtidal packstone/mudstone in the Reba Formation of Kentucky.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at USGS 5136-CO. abandoned Clara Wilham Quarry

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