Streptorhynchus plata Waterhouse 1978 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae

Alternative combination: Arctitreta plata

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

Belongs to Streptorhynchus according to S.-Z. Shen et al. 2003

See also Waterhouse 1978

Sister taxa: Streptorhynchus broilii, Streptorhynchus capuloides, Streptorhynchus conicus, Streptorhynchus costatus, Streptorhynchus craticulatus, Streptorhynchus cyrano, Streptorhynchus hoskingae, Streptorhynchus huangi, Streptorhynchus inaequiornatus, Streptorhynchus jilinensis, Streptorhynchus johnstonei, Streptorhynchus kayseri, Streptorhynchus khwaense, Streptorhynchus lenticularis, Streptorhynchus liuricus, Streptorhynchus longlinensis, Streptorhynchus longyangensis, Streptorhynchus luluigui, Streptorhynchus memor, Streptorhynchus minor, Streptorhynchus minutum, Streptorhynchus mistus, Streptorhynchus operculatus, Streptorhynchus ovata, Streptorhynchus pajkhoicus, Streptorhynchus pelargonatus, Streptorhynchus pendulus, Streptorhynchus perfidiabadensis, Streptorhynchus reliquus, Streptorhynchus ruginosum, Streptorhynchus shanensis, Streptorhynchus shumardianus, Streptorhynchus sibiricus, Streptorhynchus sinuatum, Streptorhynchus stoschensis, Streptorhynchus sulculatum, Streptorhynchus tenuicostatum, Streptorhynchus tenuiplicatus, Streptorhynchus tibetanus, Streptorhynchus tuquanensis, Streptorhynchus turbineus, Streptorhynchus ulrichi, Streptorhynchus variabilis

Type specimen: UQF 68832, a valve (Decorticated ventral valve). Its type locality is W1254, Karnali Unspecified, which is in a Changhsingian marine siliciclastic in the Senja Formation of Nepal.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of China (1 collection), Nepal (7)

Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence

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