Pterospirifer terechovi Zavodowsky 1968 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Strophopleuridae

Full reference: V. M. Zavodowsky. 1968. Spiriferacea. Novye Vidy Drevnikh Rasteniy i Bespozvonochnykh SSSR 2:149-160

Belongs to Pterospirifer according to J. B. Waterhouse 2004

See also Zavodowsky 1968

Sister taxa: Pterospirifer alatus, Pterospirifer waageni

Type specimen: TsGM 16-20/8234. Its type locality is Sededema River Basin (Alazeya Plateau), tuffite, which is in an Asselian marine tuff in the Burgali Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Sededema River Basin (Alazeya Plateau), tuffite

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