Arctitreta bapensis Waterhouse and Ranga Rao 1989 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse and A. Ranga Rao. 1989. Early Permian brachiopod and bivalve species from the Bap Formation of Peninsula India. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 63:25-39

Belongs to Arctitreta according to J. B. Waterhouse and A. Ranga Rao 1989

Sister taxa: Arctitreta bioni, Arctitreta costellata, Arctitreta crassimurus, Arctitreta intercalata, Arctitreta kempei, Arctitreta macrocardinalis, Arctitreta pearyi, Arctitreta peelensis, Arctitreta pelicanensis, Arctitreta percostata, Arctitreta plicatilis, Arctitreta triangularis

Type specimen: OGC F2, a valve (Dorsal valve). Its type locality is Bap, western Rajasthan, which is in a Sakmarian marine siliciclastic in the Bap Formation of India.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Bap, western Rajasthan

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