Hoskingia skwarkoi Archbold 1997 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Beecheriidae

Full reference: N. W. Archbold. 1997. Studies on Western Australian Permian brachiopods 14. The fauna of the Artinskian High Cliff Sandstone, Perth Basin. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 109(2):199-231

Belongs to Hoskingia according to N. W. Archbold 1997

Sister taxa: Hoskingia dieneri, Hoskingia grandis, Hoskingia hochstetteri, Hoskingia kennediensis, Hoskingia latouchei, Hoskingia nobilis, Hoskingia prolonga, Hoskingia qomolangmaensis, Hoskingia trigonopsis, Hoskingia wandageensis

Type specimen: GSWA 49474, a shell (Internal mould of conjoined shell). Its type locality is Glendevon Homestead, Woolaga Creek, Irwin River District, Perth Basin, which is in an Artinskian shoreface sandstone in the High Cliff Sandstone Formation of Australia.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Glendevon Homestead, Woolaga Creek, Irwin River District, Perth Basin

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