Pondospirifer magnificus Waterhouse 1978 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1978. Permian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from north-west Nepal. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 160(1-6):1-175

Belongs to Pondospirifer according to B. Waterhouse and Z. Q. Chen 2007

See also Shen et al. 2001, Waterhouse 1978 and Waterhouse 2004

Sister taxon: Pondospirifer crassiconcha

Type specimen: UQF 68971, a shell (Articulated shell). Its type locality is W1325, Karnali Unspecified, which is in a Changhsingian marine siliciclastic in the Senja Formation of Nepal.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of China (1 collection), Nepal (3)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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