Loczyella Frech 1901 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Productida - Permianellidae

Full reference: F. Frech. 1901. Die Dyas. Lethaea Geognostica oder Beschreibung und Abbildung der für die Gebirgs-Formationen bezeichnendsten Versteinerungen. I. Theil. Lethaea Palaeozoica 2(3):453-578

Parent taxon: Loczyellinae according to A. Williams et al. 2000

See also Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxon: Litocothia

Subtaxa: Loczyella nankingensis

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Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Nanjing Hills (von Richthofen coll) (Permian of China)

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