Aperispirifer ovalis Waterhouse 1987 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1987. Late Palaeozoic Brachiopoda (Athyrida, Spiriferida and Terebratulida) from the southeast Bowen Basin, east Australia. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 196(1-3):1-56

Belongs to Aperispirifer according to J. B. Waterhouse 2004

See also Waterhouse 1987

Sister taxa: Aperispirifer archboldi, Aperispirifer lethamensis, Aperispirifer nelsonensis, Aperispirifer wairakiensis

Type specimen: UQF 59270. Its type locality is UQ L4530, Cracow, which is in a Wordian marine horizon in the Oxtrack Formation of Australia.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Australia (16 collections)

Total: 16 collections each including a single occurrence

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