Crassispirifer broilii Waterhouse 2004 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 2004. Permian and Triassic stratigraphy and fossils of the Himalaya in northern Nepal. Earthwise 6:1-259

Belongs to Crassispirifer according to C. F. Winkler Prins 2008

See also Waterhouse 2004

Sister taxa: Crassispirifer acuta, Crassispirifer chospochtschonicus, Crassispirifer condoni, Crassispirifer galinae, Crassispirifer jakuschewae, Crassispirifer kimberleyensis, Crassispirifer koargychanensis, Crassispirifer monumentalis, Crassispirifer pinguis, Crassispirifer rostalinus, Crassispirifer striatiformis, Crassispirifer timorensis, Crassispirifer transversa

Type specimen: Its type locality is Basleo (Molengraaf coll), which is in a Roadian/Wuchiapingian marine horizon in Indonesia

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Basleo (Molengraaf coll)

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