Sulcicosta plicata Armstrong 1970 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae

Alternative combination: Pseudosyrinx plicata

Full reference: J. Armstrong. 1970. Syringothyrid brachiopods from the Permian of eastern Australia. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 136(2):135-165

Belongs to Sulcicosta according to J. B. Waterhouse 1983

See also Armstrong 1970

Sister taxa: Sulcicosta costata, Sulcicosta dolosus

Type specimen: AM F45488. Its type locality is Rylstone, which is in a Roadian coastal mudstone in the Snapper Point Formation of Australia.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Rylstone

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