Spirigerella rectimarginata Sun 1991 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae

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 Spirigerella according to D. L. Sun 1991

Sister taxa: Spirigerella alata, Spirigerella bellistriata, Spirigerella derbyi, Spirigerella discors, Spirigerella fusiformis, Spirigerella gigas, Spirigerella grandis, Spirigerella heibayideensis, Spirigerella hybrida, Spirigerella media, Spirigerella mendungensis, Spirigerella minuta, Spirigerella numismalis, Spirigerella obovata, Spirigerella ovoidalis, Spirigerella paraliensis, Spirigerella pertumida, Spirigerella praelonga, Spirigerella proxima, Spirigerella subtriangularis, Spirigerella subtriquetra, Spirigerella teseroi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Mushirebuca, Yanhu area, Upper Chainaha Formation, Gegyai County, which is in a Kungurian marine horizon in the Chainaha Formation of China

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Mushirebuca, Yanhu area, Upper Chainaha Formation, Gegyai County

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