Kinnella laurentiana Stott and Jin 2007 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Draboviidae

Full reference: C. A. Stott and J. Jin. 2007. The earliest known Kinnella, an orthide brachiopod from the Upper Ordovician of Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53(3):535-546

Belongs to Kinnella according to J. -Y. Rong et al. 2019

See also Stott and Jin 2007

Sister taxon: Kinnella medlicotti

Type specimen: GSC 117899, a shell (conjoined valves). Its type locality is Gore Bay Biostrome, on road to Maple Point, 2 kilometers west of Kagawong, which is in a Richmondian perireef or subreef dolomite/claystone in the Georgian Bay Formation of Canada.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Gore Bay Biostrome, on road to Maple Point, 2 kilometers west of Kagawong

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