Tetractinella trigonella Schlotheim 1820 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Diplospirellidae

Alternative combinations: Spirigera trigonella, Terebratulites trigonellus

Belongs to Tetractinella according to J. Palfy 2003

See also Bittner 1890, Dagys 1974, Grunt 1986, Iordan 1993, Mantovani 2002, SiblĂ­k 1991 and Torti and Angiolini 1997

Sister taxa: Tetractinella biplicatula, Tetractinella cislonensis, Tetractinella cornutula, Tetractinella didymoctenia, Tetractinella dyactis, Tetractinella hexagonalis, Tetractinella quadricostata, Tetractinella tetractis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Stubendorf, Tarnowitz, which is in an Anisian marine horizon in Poland

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of Austria (5 collections), Bosnia and Herzegovina (6), Croatia (2), Germany (2), Hungary (19), Iran (1), Italy (20), Poland (6), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (5), Slovakia (2)

Total: 70 collections each including a single occurrence

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