Costispinifera paucispinosa Shi and Waterhouse 1996 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae

Full reference: G. R. Shi and J.B. Waterhouse. 1996. Lower Permian brachiopods and molluscs from the upper Jungle Creek Formation, northern Yukon Territory, Canada. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 424:1-241

Belongs to Costispinifera according to G. R. Shi and J.B. Waterhouse 1996

Sister taxa: Costispinifera conspica, Costispinifera costata, Costispinifera rugatula, Costispinifera shizilingensis, Costispinifera sulcata, Costispinifera walcottiana

Type specimen: GSC 96955. Its type locality is GSC 57053, Section 116F-16, Northern Ogilvie Mountains, which is in a Sakmarian carbonate limestone in the Jungle Creek Formation of Canada.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at GSC 57053, Section 116F-16, Northern Ogilvie Mountains

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