Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae
Alternative spelling: Ptychtothyris
Synonym: Systenothyris Cooper 1983
Full reference: S. S. Buckman. 1917. The Brachiopoda of the Namyau Beds, Northern Shan States, Burma. Palaeontologia Indica 3(2):1-254
Parent taxon: Loboidothyridinae according to H. R. Feldman et al. 2021
See also Cooper 1983, Sepkoski 2002 and Williams et al. 2006
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Ptychtothyris baylei Ptychtothyris stephani Ptyctothyris biplicata Ptyctothyris daghaniensis Ptyctothyris hardgravensis Ptyctothyris niortensis Ptyctothyris phlegethontis Ptyctothyris quillyensis Ptyctothyris remisovi Ptyctothyris subcanaliculata Systenothyris triangulata
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Egypt (3 collections), France (8), Hungary (1), Israel (3), Jordan (2), Madagascar (1), Somalia (6), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (3), United States (3: Alaska, California), Uzbekistan (1), Yemen (6)
Total: 40 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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