Zhejiangospirifer depressus Liang 1982 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Choristitidae

Full reference: W. Liang. 1982. Brachiopod taxonomic names. Palaeontological Atlas of East China 2:186-256

Belongs to Zhejiangospirifer according to W. P. Liang 1990

See also Liang 1982

Sister taxa: Zhejiangospirifer abnormalis, Zhejiangospirifer giganteus, Zhejiangospirifer insinuatus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Lengwu, lower Cunhouling Member, Tonglu, which is in a Capitanian coastal siliciclastic in the Lengwu Formation of China

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Lengwu, lower Cunhouling Member, Tonglu

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