Spirigera milesi Smith 1927 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae

Full reference: J. P. Smith. 1927. Upper Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 141:1-262

Belongs to Spirigera according to J. P. Smith 1927

Sister taxa: Spirigera (Didymospira), Spirigera borovacensis, Spirigera forojulensis, Spirigera kaihikuana, Spirigera kittlii, Spirigera manzavinii, Spirigera manzavinioides, Spirigera misolica, Spirigera monticola, Spirigera oppelii, Spirigera pseudodielasma, Spirigera schloenbachii, Spirigera sellaris, Spirigera siljanensis, Spirigera stoliczkai, Spirigera subindistincta, Spirigera sufflata, Spirigera tricupii, Spirigera wreyi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Old quarry at southwest end of Brock Mountain, which is in a Tuvalian carbonate limestone in the Hosselkus Formation of California

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Old quarry at southwest end of Brock Mountain

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