Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Spiriferellidae
Alternative combinations: Spirifer rajah, Tintoriella rajah
Full reference: J. W. Salter. 1865. 1. Palaeozoic. Palaeontology of Niti in the Northern Himalya: Being Descriptions and Figures of the Palaeozoic and Secondary Fossils Collected by Colonel Richard Strachey, R E 1-112
Belongs to Spiriferella according to J. B. Waterhouse 2004
See also Diener 1903, Diener 1915, Grabau 1931, Lee and Gu 1980, Li et al. 1986, Licharew and Kotlyar 1978, Nelson and Nelson 1985, Shen et al. 2001, Shen and Jin 1999, Shi and Shen 1997, Waterhouse 1966, Waterhouse 1978, Waterhouse 1983, Yang et al. 1990 and Zhang and Jin 1976
Sister taxa: Spiriferella antefurcata, Spiriferella arctica, Spiriferella bituchensis, Spiriferella borealica, Spiriferella burgaliensis, Spiriferella calcarata, Spiriferella clypeata, Spiriferella consimilis, Spiriferella embrithes, Spiriferella gloverae, Spiriferella gravis, Spiriferella grunti, Spiriferella hinganensis, Spiriferella hoskingae, Spiriferella interplicata, Spiriferella jilongensis, Spiriferella keilhavii, Spiriferella keilhaviiformis, Spiriferella lata, Spiriferella legrandblaini, Spiriferella levis, Spiriferella loveni, Spiriferella magna, Spiriferella modesta, Spiriferella mugunica, Spiriferella nepalensis, Spiriferella orientensis, Spiriferella ovata, Spiriferella persaranae, Spiriferella personata, Spiriferella posterosulcata, Spiriferella primaeva, Spiriferella propria, Spiriferella pseudodraschei, Spiriferella pseudotibetana, Spiriferella salteri, Spiriferella saranae, Spiriferella scobina, Spiriferella scobinoidea, Spiriferella scopulosus, Spiriferella simplex, Spiriferella sinica, Spiriferella subsalteri, Spiriferella sulcifer, Spiriferella supplanta, Spiriferella tetralobata, Spiriferella turusica, Spiriferella unicostata, Spiriferella vaskovskii, Spiriferella vojnowskii, Spiriferella wangi, Spiriferella wimanni, Spiriferella yukonensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Spiti Pass, which is in a Lopingian carbonate limestone in India
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Canada (13: British Columbia, Yukon collections), China (26), India (16), Indonesia (1), Nepal (49)
Total: 105 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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