Birchsella spinosa Clarke 1987 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae

Full reference: M. J. Clarke. 1987. Late Permian (late Lymingtonian = ?Kazanian) brachiopods from Tasmania. Alcheringa 11:261-289

Belongs to Birchsella according to M. J. Clarke 1987

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: GST14054, a valve (External mold of dorsal valve and ventral umbo). Its type locality is Yellow Point, Birchs Bay (C1), which is in a Wuchiapingian offshore siltstone in the Abels Bay Formation of Australia.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Yellow Point, Birchs Bay (C1)

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