Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Aulacothyropsidae
Alternative combination: Aulacothyris almensis
Full reference: A. S. Moisseiev. 1932. O faune i flore Triasovykh otlozheniy doliny reki Salgir v Krymu. Izvestiya Vsesoyuznogo Geologo-Razvedochnogo Obedineniya 51(39):591-604
Belongs to Aulacothyropsis according to A. S. Dagys 1963
See also Moisseiev 1932 and Xu 1978
Sister taxa: Aulacothyropsis conspicua, Aulacothyropsis deqinica, Aulacothyropsis eminens, Aulacothyropsis megaeminens, Aulacothyropsis pentagonalis, Aulacothyropsis pervulgatus, Aulacothyropsis pressulus, Aulacothyropsis reflexa, Aulacothyropsis tschernyschevi
Type specimen: TsNIGR 83/3807. Its type locality is Salgir River near Eski-Orda village, higher limestone blocks, Crimea, which is in a Rhaetian carbonate limestone in Ukraine.
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (1 collection), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (2)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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