Dielasma rotundum Chronic 1949 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae

Full reference: B.J. Chronic. 1949. Invertebrate paleontology (excepting fuslinids and corals). Upper Paleozoic of Peru 46-173

Belongs to Dielasma according to J. Chronic 1953

See also Chronic 1949

Sister taxa: Dielasma adamanteum, Dielasma ambiense, Dielasma angustaeformis, Dielasma antecedens, Dielasma anteplicatum, Dielasma anterolatum, Dielasma bakhense, Dielasma bellulum, Dielasma bovidens, Dielasma brevicostatum, Dielasma carinthiacum, Dielasma chapini, Dielasma compactum, Dielasma complanatus, Dielasma convexa, Dielasma cordatum, Dielasma curvatum, Dielasma dadanense, Dielasma diabloense, Dielasma dieneri, Dielasma dubium, Dielasma einori, Dielasma ellipsoideum, Dielasma ellipticum, Dielasma elongatum, Dielasma emarginatum, Dielasma expansum, Dielasma fabiforme, Dielasma floresi, Dielasma giganteum, Dielasma gillingense, Dielasma glabrum, Dielasma grabaui, Dielasma gracile, Dielasma grandi, Dielasma guttula, Dielasma hessense, Dielasma himalayana, Dielasma indentum, Dielasma itaitubense, Dielasma jisuense, Dielasma kirillowense, Dielasma labiatum, Dielasma liardensis, Dielasma ligonorum, Dielasma longisulcatum, Dielasma magniforaminiferum, Dielasma mapingense, Dielasma mapingensis, Dielasma microrhynchum, Dielasma millepunctatum, Dielasma minor, Dielasma moelleri, Dielasma nexile, Dielasma obesum, Dielasma orientalis, Dielasma ovoidale, Dielasma parmularis, Dielasma perangustum, Dielasma perplexum, Dielasma phosphoriense, Dielasma pictile, Dielasma planidorsatum, Dielasma plica, Dielasma prolongatum, Dielasma purdoni, Dielasma pygmaeum, Dielasma radiatum, Dielasma rectimarginatum, Dielasma redux, Dielasma rigbyi, Dielasma robustum, Dielasma scitulum, Dielasma shafterense, Dielasma spatulatum, Dielasma sphena, Dielasma stoschensis, Dielasma subcirculare, Dielasma subcylindricum, Dielasma subelongatum, Dielasma subelongatum, Dielasma sulcatum, Dielasma sultanense, Dielasma supracarbonicum, Dielasma toulai, Dielasma trimuense, Dielasma truncatum, Dielasma truncatum, Dielasma uniplicatum, Dielasma vesiculare, Dielasma vicinale, Dielasma virgoides, Dielasma zebratum, Dielasma zhijinense

Type specimen: AMNH 26957/1:1, a shell (Articulated shell). Its type locality is AMNH297, Bed 13a, Cerro Ampáy section 7, Abancáy, which is in an Asselian/Sakmarian marine limestone in Peru.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at AMNH297, Bed 13a, Cerro Ampáy section 7, Abancáy

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