Terrakea japonica Tazawa 2008 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Productida - Linoproductidae

Full reference: J. Tazawa. 2008. A bipolar brachiopod genus Terrakea Booker, 1930 from the Middle Permian of the south Kitakami belt, northeast Japan. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 120:332-340

Belongs to Terrakea according to J. Tazawa 2008

Sister taxa: Terrakea arctica, Terrakea arguta, Terrakea borealis, Terrakea brachythaera, Terrakea dickinsi, Terrakea echinata, Terrakea elongata, Terrakea etheridgei, Terrakea exmoorensis, Terrakea grandis, Terrakea hemisphaeroidalis, Terrakea korkodonensis, Terrakea minima, Terrakea nabekoshiyamensis, Terrakea nalivkini, Terrakea pollex, Terrakea quadrata, Terrakea rylstonensis, Terrakea vernacula, Terrakea yanagidai, Saetosina multispinosa

Type specimen: NU-B702, a shell. Its type locality is KF217, Ishikagorisawa, Imo Prefecture, which is in a Wordian marine shale in the Kamiyasse Formation of Japan.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at KF217, Ishikagorisawa, Imo Prefecture

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