Antronaria mesicostalis Girty 1929 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Pontisiidae

Alternative combination: Pugnoides mesicostalis

Full reference: G. H. Girty. 1929. New Carboniferous invertebrates - II. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 19:406-415

Belongs to Antronaria according to G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant 1976

See also Girty 1929

Sister taxa: Antronaria dissona, Antronaria emarginata, Antronaria indentata, Antronaria pluricosta, Antronaria specialis, Antronaria speciosa, Antronaria spectabilis, Antronaria titania, Antronaria transversa, Antronaria voluminosa

Type specimen: USNM 152852a, a shell (Articulated shell). Its type locality is North Apache Canyon, Sierra Diablo, which is in a Kungurian carbonate limestone in the Bone Spring Formation of Texas.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of United States (11: Texas collections)

Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence

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