Fusispirifer Waterhouse 1966 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae

Synonym: Transversaria

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1966. Lower Carboniferous and Upper Permian Brachiopods from Nepal. Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 12:5-99

Parent taxon: Neospiriferinae according to A. Williams et al. 2006

See also Sepkoski 2002, Shen et al. 2003 and Waterhouse 2004

Sister taxa: Betaneospirifer, Blasispirifer, Cartorhium, Costatispirifer, Crassispirifer, Cratispirifer, Fasciculatia, Fusispiriferinae, Gibbospirifer, Gypospirifer, Imperiospira, Kaninospirifer, Kaninospiriferinae, Lepidospirifer, Lutuginia, Maxwellispirifer, Neospirifer, Occidalia, Pondospirifer, Saltospirifer, Septospirifer, Simplicisulcus, Spiriferalaria, Tibetospirifer

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

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Afghanistan (1 collection), Australia (68), China (22), India (10), Mongolia (2), Nepal (14), Pakistan (3), the Russian Federation (5)

Total: 125 collections including 129 occurrences

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