Acosarina peculiaris Girty 1931 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Schizophoriidae

Alternative combination: Schizophoria peculiaris

Full reference: G. H. Girty. 1931. New Carboniferous invertebrates - III. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 21:390-397

Belongs to Acosarina according to M. E. Clapham 2015

See also Girty 1931

Sister taxa: Acosarina antesulcata, Acosarina baylorensis, Acosarina circular, Acosarina dorashamensis, Acosarina dunbari, Acosarina fecunda, Acosarina grandis, Acosarina incisiva, Acosarina janiceps, Acosarina juresanensis, Acosarina mesoplatys, Acosarina minuta, Acosarina monocosta, Acosarina rectimarginata, Acosarina regularis, Acosarina tumita

Type specimen: Its type locality is USGS 6681, Marble Canyon, east face of Diablo Plateau, which is in a Kungurian carbonate limestone in the Bone Spring Formation of Texas

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at USGS 6681, Marble Canyon, east face of Diablo Plateau

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