Sulcicosta costata Waterhouse 1987 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1987. Late Palaeozoic Brachiopoda (Athyrida, Spiriferida and Terebratulida) from the southeast Bowen Basin, east Australia. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 196(1-3):1-56

Belongs to Sulcicosta according to J. B. Waterhouse 1987

Sister taxa: Sulcicosta dolosus, Sulcicosta plicata

Type specimen: UQ F74154. Its type locality is UQ L4820, Buffel Hill, Cracow Station, which is in a Kungurian open shallow subtidal limestone in the Buffel Formation of Australia.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at UQ L4820, Buffel Hill, Cracow Station

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