Arctitreta percostata Waterhouse 1982 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1982. An Early Permian cool-water fauna from pebbly mudstones in south Thailand. Geological Magazine 119(4):337-354

Belongs to Arctitreta according to Mohd Shafeea Leman 2003

See also Waterhouse 1982

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

Type specimen: TBR 476, a valve (Ventral valve, exterior and interior mould). Its type locality is Ko Muk Island, Collection 3, which is in an Asselian marine sandstone in the Lower Formation of Thailand.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Malaysia (1 collection), Thailand (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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