Quadrospira preplicatus Hogeboom 1999 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae

Alternative combination: Neospirifer (Quadrospira) preplicatus

Full reference: T. Hogeboom. 1999. Taxonomic names, in Additional specimens of Early Permian brachiopods from the Callytharra Formation, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia: new morphological data. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 111:255-269

Belongs to Quadrospira according to M. E. Clapham 2015

See also Hogeboom 1999

Sister taxa: Neospirifer (Quadrospira) tibetensis, Quadrospira crassicostatus, Quadrospira hardmani, Quadrospira plicatus, Quadrospira postplicatus, Quadrospira woolagensis

Type specimen: GSWA F51014, a valve (Ventral valve). Its type locality is GSWA 144110, Callytharra Springs, Second Gully, which is in a Sakmarian marine mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in the Callytharra Formation of Australia.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at GSWA 144110, Callytharra Springs, Second Gully

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