Spirigerella gigas Reed 1944 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae

Full reference: F. R. C. Reed. 1944. Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range. Palaeontogica Indica, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, New Series 23(2):1-596

Belongs to Spirigerella according to F. R. C. Reed 1944

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is SSE of hill 2338 and NE of Ghundi, near top of cliff limestone, Salt Range, which is in a Wuchiapingian marine horizon in the Wargal Formation of Pakistan

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at SSE of hill 2338 and NE of Ghundi, near top of cliff limestone, Salt Range

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