Apatecosia ovata Cooper 1989 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Lissajousithyrididae

Alternative combination: Gyrosina ovata

Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1989. Jurassic brachiopods of Saudi Arabia. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 65:1-213

Belongs to Apatecosia according to A. Williams et al. 2006

See also Cooper 1989

Sister taxa: Apatecosia inornata, Apatecosia nutiensis, Apatecosia varians, Gyrosina rotunda

Type specimen: Its type locality is Zilfi, S154, which is in a Callovian shallow subtidal limestone in the Tuwaiq Mountain Formation of Saudi Arabia

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Zilfi, S154

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