Hemiptychina tschernyschewi Schellwien 1900 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Gillediidae

Alternative combination: Terebratula (Hemiptychina) tschernyschewi

Full reference: E. Schellwien. 1900. Die Fauna der Trogkofelschichten in den Karnischen Alpen und den Karawanken I. Theil: die Brachiopoden. Abhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt 16:1-122

Belongs to Hemiptychina according to T. N. Smirnova 2007

See also Schellwien 1900

Sister taxa: Hemiptychina amygdala, Hemiptychina carniolica, Hemiptychina crebriplicata, Hemiptychina darvasica, Hemiptychina desticata, Hemiptychina himalayensis, Hemiptychina inflata, Hemiptychina kutorgi, Hemiptychina lamellosa, Hemiptychina mintrita, Hemiptychina mirabilis, Hemiptychina mongolica, Hemiptychina morrisi, Hemiptychina murrita, Hemiptychina nana, Hemiptychina patula, Hemiptychina pseudoelongata, Hemiptychina pygmaea, Hemiptychina quadricostata, Hemiptychina schellwieni, Hemiptychina sparsiplicata, Hemiptychina subaequalis, Hemiptychina truncata, Hemiptychina warchensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Teufelsschlucht bei Neumarktl, which is in an Asselian carbonate limestone in the Dolzanova Soteska Formation of Slovenia

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Teufelsschlucht bei Neumarktl

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