Schizophoria rhomboidalis Huang 1933 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Schizophoriidae

Full reference: T. K. Huang. 1933. Late Permian Brachiopoda of southwestern China, Part 2. Palaeontologia Sinica, Series B 9(2):1-172

Belongs to Schizophoria according to T. K. Huang 1933

Sister taxa: Orthis (Schizophoria) iowensis, Schizophoria (Eoschizophoria), Schizophoria (Rhenoschizophoria), Schizophoria (Schizophoria), Schizophoria amanaensis, Schizophoria annanaensis, Schizophoria chouteauensis, Schizophoria depressa, Schizophoria kintaensis, Schizophoria kutsingensis, Schizophoria lata, Schizophoria nevadaensis, Schizophoria paraprima, Schizophoria parenteletiformis, Schizophoria poststriatula, Schizophoria resupinata, Schizophoria striatula, Schizophoria striatula, Schizophoria sulcata, Schizophoria supracarbonica, Schizophoria swallowi, Schizophoria tani, Schizophoria upensis, Schizophoria verulamensis, Schizophoria vulvaria

Type specimen: NIGP 4667. Its type locality is Erhp'u, Locality 1327, Kueiyang-hsien, which is in a Wuchiapingian carbonate limestone in China.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Erhp'u, Locality 1327, Kueiyang-hsien

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