Megousia nakamurai Tazawa 1975 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Productida - Linoproductidae

Full reference: J. Tazawa. 1975. Uppermost Permian fossils from the southern Kitakami Mountains, northeast Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 81:629-640

Belongs to Megousia according to J. I. Tazawa 2012

See also Tazawa 1975

Sister taxa: Megousia aagardi, Megousia alata, Megousia auriculata, Megousia crenulata, Megousia definita, Megousia flexuosa, Megousia girtyi, Megousia kolymaensis, Megousia kulikii, Megousia mucronata, Megousia papilio, Megousia pobedensis, Megousia sinuata, Megousia solita, Megousia umbonata, Megousia waageniana, Megousia yakutica

Type specimen: UHR19673, a valve (dorsal valve external mold). Its type locality is Komagone-Sawa River, Locality 4, Nabekoshi Mountain, Kesennuma City, which is in a Changhsingian marine sandstone in the Toyoma Formation of Japan.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Japan (5 collections)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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