†Nipponirhynchia shutoi Yanagida and Nishikawa 1984 (lamp shell)
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Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Full reference: J. Yanagida and I. Nishikawa. 1984. Early Permian brachiopods from the Kawai Limestone, Hiroshima Prefecture, southwest Japan. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Series D, Geology 25(2):159-197
Belongs to Nipponirhynchia according to J. Yanagida and I. Nishikawa 1984
Sister taxon: Nipponirhynchia kamiyassensis
Type specimen: GK-D 31600, a shell (Conjoined shell). Its type locality is Kogoro K-2, Hiroshima Prefecture, which is in a Sakmarian carbonate limestone in the Kawai Formation of Japan.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Kogoro K-2, Hiroshima Prefecture
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