Talasotreta alta Cooper 1956 (lamp shell)

Lingulata - Acrotretida - Acrotretidae

Alternative combination: Conotreta alta

Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245

Belongs to Talasotreta according to L. E. Holmer 2000

See also Cooper 1956

Sister taxa: Talasotreta apollonovi, Talasotreta deformis, Talasotreta gigantea, Talasotreta magna

Type specimen: USNM 109715, a valve. Its type locality is Both sides of the old road in the cedar glade ¼ mile southeast of Friendsville, which is in a Chazyan carbonate limestone in the Arline Formation of Tennessee.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Both sides of the old road in the cedar glade ¼ mile southeast of Friendsville

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