Waldheimia waldeggiana Zugmayer 1882 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebratulidae

Full reference: H. Zugmayer. 1882. Untersuchungen über rhätische Brachiopoden. Beiträge zur Paläontologie und Geologie Österreich-Ungarns und des Orients 1:1-42

Belongs to Waldheimia according to H. Zugmayer 1882

Sister taxa: Terebratula (Waldheimia) timorensis, Waldheimia (Zeilleria), Waldheimia carinata, Waldheimia muensteri, Waldheimia mutabilis, Waldheimia neohispanica, Waldheimia pentagona, Waldheimia planoconvexa, Waldheimia porrecta, Waldheimia schlosseri, Waldheimia woodwardi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Kaisersteffel, which is in a Rhaetian carbonate limestone in the Koessen Formation of Austria

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Kaisersteffel

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