Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae
Alternative combination: Athyris grandis
Full reference: T. Davidson. 1862. On some Carboniferous Brachiopoda collected in India by A. Fleming, MD, and W. Purdon, Esq, FGS. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 18:25-35
Belongs to Spirigerella according to Y. Zeng et al. 1995
See also Davidson 1862, Diener 1897, Frech 1911, Grunt 1980, Grunt 1986, Huang 1933, Jin and Sun 1981, Lee and Gu 1980, Reed 1944, Waagen 1883 and Wang et al. 1982
Sister taxa: Spirigerella alata, Spirigerella bellistriata, Spirigerella derbyi, Spirigerella discors, Spirigerella fusiformis, Spirigerella gigas, Spirigerella heibayideensis, Spirigerella hybrida, Spirigerella media, Spirigerella mendungensis, Spirigerella minuta, Spirigerella numismalis, Spirigerella obovata, Spirigerella ovoidalis, Spirigerella paraliensis, Spirigerella pertumida, Spirigerella praelonga, Spirigerella proxima, Spirigerella rectimarginata, Spirigerella subtriangularis, Spirigerella subtriquetra, Spirigerella teseroi
Type specimen: Its type locality is Moosakhail (Fleming coll), which is in a Wuchiapingian marine limestone in the Wargal Formation of Pakistan
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of China (8 collections), Myanmar (1), Pakistan (90)
• Devonian of China (9)
Total: 108 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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