Pinegathyris alata Grunt 1980 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae

Full reference: T. A. Grunt. 1980. Athrididi Russkoi Platformi. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 182:1-164

Belongs to Pinegathyris according to T. A. Grunt 1986

See also Grunt 1980

Sister taxa: Pinegathyris kotlukovi, Pinegathyris royssiana, Pinegathyris shegmasensis, Pinegathyris stuckenbergi

Type specimen: TsNIGR 154/534, a shell. Its type locality is Kurga Village, Section 10, right bank Pinega River, which is in a Roadian marine horizon in the Kazan Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of the Russian Federation (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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