Neospirifer shenshuensis Lee and Su 1980 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae

Full reference: L. Lee and Y. Z. Su. 1980. Taxonomic names, Carboniferous and Permian Brachiopoda. Paleontological Atlas of Northeast China 1:327-429

Belongs to Neospirifer according to Hall 1852

Sister taxa: Neospirifer (Neospirifer), Neospirifer (Quadrospira), Neospirifer amphigyus, Neospirifer amplus, Neospirifer apothescelus, Neospirifer bakeri, Neospirifer borealis, Neospirifer cameratiformis, Neospirifer cameratus, Neospirifer campbelli, Neospirifer chivatschensis, Neospirifer crassiconchialis, Neospirifer dunbari, Neospirifer fasciger, Neospirifer foordi, Neospirifer formulosus, Neospirifer goreii, Neospirifer gortani, Neospirifer grandis, Neospirifer gruenewaldtianus, Neospirifer huecoensis, Neospirifer incipiens, Neospirifer invisus, Neospirifer kalashnikovi, Neospirifer kansasensis, Neospirifer koewbaidhoni, Neospirifer lanceolatus, Neospirifer latus, Neospirifer licharewi, Neospirifer mansuetus, Neospirifer mengjiushanensis, Neospirifer neali, Neospirifer neocameratus, Neospirifer neostriatus, Neospirifer notialis, Neospirifer omolonensis, Neospirifer orientalis, Neospirifer paranitiensis, Neospirifer parenensis, Neospirifer permicus, Neospirifer placidus, Neospirifer plana, Neospirifer poletaevi, Neospirifer praenuntius, Neospirifer pristinus, Neospirifer pseudonitiensis, Neospirifer rhomboidalis, Neospirifer rhomboides, Neospirifer snjatkovi, Neospirifer sodalis, Neospirifer sterlitamakensis, Neospirifer subfasciger, Neospirifer tajmyrica, Neospirifer tegulatus, Neospirifer tricostatus, Neospirifer trimuensis, Neospirifer undatus, Neospirifer venezuelensis, Neospirifer wynneiformis, Spirifer (Neospirifer) bakeri, Spirifer (Neospirifer) huecoensis, Wadispirifer ravana, Wadispirifer hongdeensis, Wadispirifer grandis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Shenshu, southern mountain, Tieli County, which is in a Wordian/Capitanian marine horizon in the Tumenling Formation of China

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Shenshu, southern mountain, Tieli County

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