Schuchertella tapina Grant 1993 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae

Full reference: R. E. Grant. 1993. Permian brachiopods from Khios Island, Greece. Journal of Paleontology Memoir 67(4):1-21

Belongs to Schuchertella according to R. E. Grant 1993

Sister taxa: Schuchertella bassa, Schuchertella beyrichi, Schuchertella bowdenensis, Schuchertella cooperi, Schuchertella costatula, Schuchertella fernglenensis, Schuchertella fushuiensis, Schuchertella gelaohoensis, Schuchertella guizhouensis, Schuchertella haraganensis, Schuchertella humboldtensis, Schuchertella lens, Schuchertella luliangensis, Schuchertella magna, Schuchertella missouriensis, Schuchertella nevadaensis, Schuchertella percha, Schuchertella probabilis, Schuchertella propinqua, Schuchertella quryatensis, Schuchertella radialis, Schuchertella resupinata, Schuchertella rubra, Schuchertella semiplana, Schuchertella shenshuensis, Schuchertella subvexa, Streptorhynchus (Schuchertella) asperulus, Streptorhynchus (Schuchertella) praeceps

Type specimen: USNM 402107, a valve (Ventral valve). Its type locality is USNM9592, Agrelias 2, Chios, which is in a Roadian open shallow subtidal bindstone in the Gymnocodiacean Limestone Formation of Greece.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Greece (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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