Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Meekellidae
Alternative combinations: Lopingia regularis, Schellwienella regularis
Full reference: T. K. Huang. 1933. Late Permian Brachiopoda of southwestern China, Part 2. Palaeontologia Sinica, Series B 9(2):1-172
Belongs to Orthothetina according to H. T. Wu and Y. Zhang 2020
See also Feng and Jiang 1978, He et al. 2019, Huang 1933, Li and Shen 2008, Liao 1980, Liao 1987, Shen and Shi 2007, Shen and Zhang 2008, Wu et al. 2018, Yang et al. 1977, Zhan 1979 and Zhang et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Orthothetina azarjani, Orthothetina caojiayingensis, Orthothetina convergens, Orthothetina curvata, Orthothetina deminuta, Orthothetina dzhulfensis, Orthothetina ellipsoides, Orthothetina elongata, Orthothetina emaciatus, Orthothetina eusarkos, Orthothetina frechi, Orthothetina gigantea, Orthothetina hayasakai, Orthothetina iljinae, Orthothetina kayseri, Orthothetina ladina, Orthothetina leei, Orthothetina mianzhuensis, Orthothetina neilsoni, Orthothetina peregrina, Orthothetina persica, Orthothetina planoconvexa, Orthothetina polita, Orthothetina ruber, Orthothetina ruchae, Orthothetina shuangtangensis, Orthothetina sokolskajae, Orthothetina thomasi, Orthothetina transversa, Orthothetina triangularis, Orthothetina vediensis, Orthothetina yanziyanensis, Orthothetina yishanensis, Orthothetina yuananensis, Orthothetina zhejiangensis
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of China (95 collections)
Total: 95 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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