Pinegathyris shegmasensis Grunt 1980 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae

Full reference: T. A. Grunt. 1980. Athrididi Russkoi Platformi. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 182:1-164

Belongs to Pinegathyris according to T. A. Grunt 1986

See also Grunt 1980

Sister taxa: Pinegathyris alata, Pinegathyris kotlukovi, Pinegathyris royssiana, Pinegathyris stuckenbergi

Type specimen: PIN 1120/905, a shell

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Mezenskaya Pizhma River, 11 km from mouth, Shegmas River (Permian of Russian Federation)

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