Tangshanella nakakuboensis Yanagida and Hirata 1969 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Choristitidae

Full reference: J. Yanagida and M. Hirata. 1969. Lower Permian brachiopods from Nakakubo, west-central Shikoku, Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 73:89-111

Belongs to Tangshanella according to J. Yanagida and M. Hirata 1969

Sister taxa: Tangshanella byrangi, Tangshanella taimyrica, Tangshanella uzunbulakensis

Type specimen: GK-D 30230. Its type locality is Nakakubo, Yanadani-mura, Kamiukena-gun, Ehime Prefecture, which is in an Asselian carbonate packstone in the Nakakubo Formation of Japan.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Nakakubo, Yanadani-mura, Kamiukena-gun, Ehime Prefecture

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