Orthotetes abruptus Liang 1990 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Orthotetidae

Full reference: W. P. Liang. 1990. Lengwu Formation of Permian and its Brachiopod Fauna in Zhejiang Province. Geological Memoirs 2(10):1-522

Belongs to Orthotetes according to W. P. Liang 1990

Sister taxa: Orthotetes afanasjevae, Orthotetes bisulcatus, Orthotetes canadensis, Orthotetes guppyi, Orthotetes huagongensis, Orthotetes jugorica, Orthotetes kaskaskiensis, Orthotetes keokuk, Orthotetes kraffti, Orthotetes occidentalis, Orthotetes picta, Orthotetes plana, Orthotetes simensis, Orthotetes sulcus, Orthotetes sulensis, Orthotetes trigonalis, Orthothetes crenistria

Type specimen: Its type locality is Lengwu, upper Shiziling Member, Tonglu, which is in a Capitanian coastal marl/limestone in the Lengwu Formation of China

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Lengwu, upper Shiziling Member, Tonglu

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