Fusispirifer gegyaiensis Sun 1991 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae

Full reference: D. L. Sun. 1991. Permian (Sakmarian-Artinskian) fauna from Gegyai County, Xizang (Tibet), and its biogeographic significance. Stratigraphy and Palaeontology of Permian, Jurassic, and Cretaceous of Rutog Region 215-275

Belongs to Fusispirifer according to D. L. Sun 1991

Sister taxa: Fusispirifer avicula, Fusispirifer byroensis, Fusispirifer carnarvonensis, Fusispirifer coolkilyaensis, Fusispirifer cundlegoensis, Fusispirifer jini, Fusispirifer kedonensis, Fusispirifer kennediensis, Fusispirifer legrandblainae, Fusispirifer marcouiformis, Fusispirifer nitiensis, Fusispirifer quinnaniensis, Fusispirifer semiplicata, Fusispirifer subovalis, Fusispirifer wandageensis, Spirifera avicula, Transversaria pauciplicus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Mushirebuca, Yanhu area, Middle Mushirebuca Comuquia zone, Gegyai County, which is in a Sakmarian marine horizon in the Mushirebuca Formation of China

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Mushirebuca, Yanhu area, Middle Mushirebuca Comuquia zone, Gegyai County

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