†Walkerithyris mendax Cox and Middlemiss 1978 (lamp shell)
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Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
Full reference: M. M. Cox and F. A. Middlemiss. 1978. Terebratulacea from the Cretaceous Shenley Limestone. Palaeontology 21(2):411-441
Belongs to Walkerithyris according to G. A. Cooper 1983
See also Cox and Middlemiss 1978
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: BM BB76234, a shell. Its type locality is CBPsl, Chamberlain Barn [Shenley Limestone, Lower Greensand], which is in an Albian marine carbonate in the Munday’s Hill Phosphatic Sandstone Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at CBPsl, Chamberlain Barn [Shenley Limestone, Lower Greensand]
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