Levenolasma leveni Smirnova and Grunt 2003 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Pseudodielasmatidae

Full reference: T. N. Smirnova and T.A. Grunt. 2003. New Permian brachiopods of the Order Terebratulida from the southwestern Darvaz (northern Pamirs): 3. Superfamily Loboidothyroidea. Paleontological Journal 37(2):138-144

Belongs to Levenolasma according to T. N. Smirnova 2007

See also Smirnova and Grunt 2003

Sister taxa: Levenolasma concava, Levenolasma mongolica, Levenolasma nikitini, Levenolasma sinuosa

Type specimen: PIN 4104/1083, a shell (Articulated shell). Its type locality is Zidadara River Upper Reaches, Locality 1169, which is in a Kungurian marine horizon in the Gundara Formation of Tajikistan.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Zidadara River Upper Reaches, Locality 1169

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