Oxycolpella kunensis Dagys 1963 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Diplospirellidae

Full reference: A. S. Dagys. 1963. Upper Triassic brachiopods of the southern USSR 1-238

Belongs to Oxycolpella according to A. S. Dagys 1963

Sister taxa: Oxycolpella arabica, Oxycolpella circularis, Oxycolpella elongata, Oxycolpella eurycolpos, Oxycolpella guseriplica, Oxycolpella lanaensis, Oxycolpella mulica, Oxycolpella oxycolpos, Oxycolpella rectimarginata, Oxycolpella robinsoni, Oxycolpella sankaica, Oxycolpella semiconvexa, Oxycolpella wenquanensis, Oxycolpella zhidoensis, Oxycolpella zhonghuaensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is River Kuna, which is in a Norian/Rhaetian marine limestone in the Russian Federation

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at River Kuna

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