Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Beecheriidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 147454

Full reference: T. N. Smirnova. 2004. The Lower Kazanian (Upper Permian) terebratulid assemblage of the Family Beecheriidae fam. nov. (Brachiopoda) from the east of the Russian Platform. Paleontological Journal 38(2):166-171

Belongs to Sokelasma according to T. N. Smirnova 2007

Sister taxa: Sokelasma chuvaschensis, Sokelasma esaulovae, Sokelasma tatarstanica

Type specimen: PIN 4898/76, a shell (Articulated shell). Its type locality is Chuvashskii Bajtugan Farm, Sok River, Samara Oblast, which is in a Roadian carbonate limestone in the Bajtugan Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): shell 14.6 x 12.2