Strophomenata - Productida - Strophalosiidae
Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1953. Sponges, Brachiopoda, Pelecypoda, and Scaphopoda. Permian fauna at El Antimonio, western Sonora, Mexico. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 119(2):21-80
Belongs to Heteralosia according to H. Muir-Wood and G. A. Cooper 1960
See also Cooper 1953
Sister taxa: Heteralosia alexandrae, Heteralosia beecheri, Heteralosia complectens, Heteralosia cornelliana, Heteralosia cymbula, Heteralosia fortispinosa, Heteralosia haerens, Heteralosia hystricula, Heteralosia iphia, Heteralosia magnispina, Heteralosia orbiculata, Heteralosia paucispinosa, Heteralosia slocomi, Heteralosia subelliptica, Heteralosia tenuispina, Heteralosia vidriensis, Strophalosia (Heteralosia) sublamellata, Strophalosia (Heteralosia) tenuispina
Type specimen: USNM 115587. Its type locality is USNM806f, Cerros de los Monos, El Antimonio, Sonora, which is in a Wordian marine limestone in the Antimonio Formation of Mexico.
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at USNM806f, Cerros de los Monos, El Antimonio, Sonora
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