Hemiptychina desticata Grant 1976 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Gillediidae

Full reference: R. E. Grant. 1976. Permian brachiopods from southern Thailand. Paleontological Society Memoir 9:1-269

Belongs to Hemiptychina according to R. E. Grant 1976

Sister taxa: Hemiptychina amygdala, Hemiptychina carniolica, Hemiptychina crebriplicata, Hemiptychina darvasica, Hemiptychina himalayensis, Hemiptychina inflata, Hemiptychina kutorgi, Hemiptychina lamellosa, Hemiptychina mintrita, Hemiptychina mirabilis, Hemiptychina mongolica, Hemiptychina morrisi, Hemiptychina murrita, Hemiptychina nana, Hemiptychina patula, Hemiptychina pseudoelongata, Hemiptychina pygmaea, Hemiptychina quadricostata, Hemiptychina schellwieni, Hemiptychina sparsiplicata, Hemiptychina subaequalis, Hemiptychina truncata, Hemiptychina tschernyschewi, Hemiptychina warchensis

Type specimen: USNM 213249, a shell (Articulated shell). Its type locality is USNM9270, Phangnga, which is in a Roadian marine limestone in the Rat Buri Formation of Thailand.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at USNM9270, Phangnga

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