Cancellospirifer maxwelli Campbell 1953 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Spiriferidae

Full reference: K. S. W. Campbell. 1953. The fauna of the Permo-Carboniferous Ingelara beds of Queensland. Papers - Department of Geology, University of Queensland 4(3):3-43

Belongs to Cancellospirifer according to J. B. Waterhouse 2004

See also Campbell 1953 and Parfrey 1988

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UQ F14242, a shell (Conjoined shell). Its type locality is UQ L999, Dry Creek, Ingelara, which is in a Wuchiapingian coastal mudstone in the Peawaddy Formation of Australia.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Australia (6 collections)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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