“…At present, rhynchonelliformean brachiopods are prevalent throughout temperate to polar regions (e.g. Baird, Lee, & Lamare, ; Campbell & Fleming, ; Emig, ; Foster, ; Gordillo, Muñoz, Bayer, & Malvé, ; Hiller, ; Lee, ; Roux & Bremec, ; Tunnicliffe & Wilson, ), and more rarely at tropical latitudes (Kowalewski, Simões, Carroll, & Rodland, ; Laurin, ; Simões, Kowalewski, Mello, Rodland, & Carroll, ). These filter‐feeders are found on mobile to hard substrates from shallow subtidal to abyssal depths (Emig et al, ).…”