Spinomartinia spinosa Waterhouse 1968 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Martiniidae

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1968. The classification and description of Permian Spiriferida (Brachiopoda) from New Zealand. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 129(1-3):1-94

Belongs to Spinomartinia according to J. B. Waterhouse and A. R. Mutch 1978

See also Waterhouse 1968

Sister taxa: Spinomartinia prolifica, Spinomartinia queenslandica

Type specimen: OU 2413, a valve (Ventral valve internal mold). Its type locality is GS1456, Steel's House Quarry, Clinton (G45/f9498), which is in a Changhsingian marine horizon in the "Puruhauan" Formation of New Zealand.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of New Zealand (4 collections)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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