Crassispirifer pinguis Archbold and Thomas 1985 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae

Full reference: N. W. Archbold and G. A. Thomas. 1985. New genera of Western Australian Permian Spiriferidae (Brachiopoda). Alcheringa 9:269-292

Belongs to Crassispirifer according to J. B. Waterhouse 2004

See also Archbold and Thomas 1985

Sister taxa: Crassispirifer acuta, Crassispirifer broilii, Crassispirifer chospochtschonicus, Crassispirifer condoni, Crassispirifer galinae, Crassispirifer jakuschewae, Crassispirifer kimberleyensis, Crassispirifer koargychanensis, Crassispirifer monumentalis, Crassispirifer rostalinus, Crassispirifer striatiformis, Crassispirifer timorensis, Crassispirifer transversa

Type specimen: UWA 27382, a shell (Articulated shell). Its type locality is UWA WC27, Mungadan Paddock, which is in a Kungurian marine siliciclastic in the Wandagee Formation of Australia.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Australia (5 collections)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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