Dalmanella testudinaria Dalman 1828 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae

Synonym: Dalmanella biconvexa Williams 1951

Full reference: J. W. Dalman. 1828. Uppställning och Beskrifning af de i Sverige funne Terebratuliter. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademien Handlingar for År 1827:85-155

Belongs to Dalmanella according to L. Hints and D. A. T. Harper 2015

See also Cocks 2014 and Williams 1951

Sister taxa: Dalmanella (Isorthis), Dalmanella (Wattsella), Dalmanella aluverensis, Dalmanella antisculpta, Dalmanella bassleri, Dalmanella cheesemani, Dalmanella cicatrica, Dalmanella costellata, Dalmanella cyclica, Dalmanella edgewoodensis, Dalmanella federata, Dalmanella fertilis, Dalmanella frechi, Dalmanella horderleyensis, Dalmanella humalaensis, Dalmanella kotyrzhalica, Dalmanella manitoulinensis, Dalmanella modica, Dalmanella navis, Dalmanella parva, Dalmanella pectinoides, Dalmanella portranensis, Dalmanella rosensteinae, Dalmanella salopiensis, Dalmanella sculpta, Dalmanella sillimani, Dalmanella sillimani, Dalmanella sulcata, Dalmanella unguis, Dalmanella whittakeri

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Silurian of Argentina (4 collections), China (2)

• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (3: Québec)

• Ordovician of Argentina (2), Canada (4: Quebec), China (25), Czechia (3), Estonia (7), Latvia (28), Lithuania (4), Myanmar (1), Norway (14), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (14), Türkiye (1), the United Kingdom (15), United States (2: Maine, Missouri)

Total: 132 collections including 133 occurrences

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