Wimanella maladensis Resser 1939 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Bohemiellidae

Full reference: C. E. Resser. 1939. The Ptarmigania strata of the northwestern Wasatch Mountains. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 98(24):1-72

Belongs to Wimanella according to C. E. Resser 1939

Sister taxa: Wimanella highlandensis, Wimanella inyoensis, Wimanella nautes, Wimanella rara, Wimanella seges, Wimanella shelbyensis, Wimanella simplex, Wimanella spencei, Wimanella tricavata

Type specimen: Its type locality is 54s - Near mouth of North side Two Mile Canyon, 2 miles se of Malad, Wasatch Mts, which is in a Menevian carbonate limestone in the Langston Formation of Idaho

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at 54s - Near mouth of North side Two Mile Canyon, 2 miles se of Malad, Wasatch Mts

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