Richthofenia caucasica Licharew 1928 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Productida - Richthofeniidae

Full reference: B. Licharew. 1928. Uber einige seltene und neue Brachiopoden aus dem Unterperm des norlichen Kaukasus. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 10:258-289

Belongs to Richthofenia according to G. V. Kotlyar 1989

See also Grunt and Dmitriev 1973, Licharew 1928 and Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960

Sister taxa: Richthofenia anshunensis, Richthofenia elegans, Richthofenia guangdeensis, Richthofenia lawrenciana, Richthofenia orientalis, Richthofenia sinensis, Richthofenia tilita, Richthofenia ussurica

Type specimen: Its type locality is Severnaya Balka, Malaya Laba River (Robinson coll), which is in a Changhsingian carbonate limestone in the Urushten Formation of the Russian Federation

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Armenia (5 collections), Azerbaijan (2), Iran (1), the Russian Federation (1), Tajikistan (3), Ukraine (1)

Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence

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