Crassispirifer transversa 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 J. B. Waterhouse 2004

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

Type specimen: China University of Geosciences, Beijing Campus, 74102. Its type locality is Mayang 81KFA74-1, Zanda County, which is in a Wuchiapingian marine siliciclastic in the Mangzongrong Formation of China.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Mayang 81KFA74-1, Zanda County

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