Plicatospiriferella akachanica Klets 1998 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Spiriferellidae

Full reference: A. G. Klets. 1998. New stratigraphically significant brachiopods from the late Paleozoic of southwestern Verkhoyan'ye. News on Paleontology and Stratigraphy 1:91-101

Belongs to Plicatospiriferella according to A. G. Klets 1998

Sister taxa: Plicatospiriferella canadensis, Plicatospiriferella costata, Plicatospiriferella grata, Plicatospiriferella ploskajae

Type specimen: PGO K-205-18. Its type locality is Buyundzha River K-205, Okhotsk region, which is in a Moscovian marine horizon in the Mishkinskaya Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Buyundzha River K-205, Okhotsk region

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