Comelicania merlai Posenato 1998 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae

Full reference: R. Posenato. 1998. The gen. Comelicania Frech, 1901 (Brachiopoda) from the southern Alps: morphology and classification. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 104(1):43-68

Belongs to Comelicania according to R. Posenato 2001

Sister taxa: Comelicania haueri, Comelicania megalotis, Spitispirifer bisulcatus

Type specimen: MDSGF PK52, a valve (ventral valve). Its type locality is Sass di Putia, Bed PK53, which is in a Changhsingian open shallow subtidal wackestone in the Bellerophon Formation of Italy.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Italy (6 collections)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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