Septospirigerella megridagica Grunt 1965 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae

Full reference: T. A. Grunt. 1965. Athyridida, in The Development and Change of Marine Organisms at the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic Boundary. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 108:237-253

Belongs to Septospirigerella according to G. V. Kotlyar 1989

See also Grunt 1965

Sister taxa: Septospirigerella applanata, Septospirigerella baissalensis, Septospirigerella felinella, Septospirigerella geranossica, Septospirigerella grandis, Septospirigerella harrisoni, Septospirigerella lingula, Septospirigerella ovata

Type specimen: PIN 2073/583, a shell (Articulated shell). Its type locality is Chanakhchi, Khachik Fm, which is in a Capitanian carbonate limestone in the Khachik Formation of Armenia.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Armenia (4 collections), Azerbaijan (5), Iran (2)

Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence

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