Taimyropsis Ustritsky 1963 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae

Full reference: V. I. Ustritsky. 1963. Taxonomic names, in Biostratigrafiya I Brakhiopody Verknego Paleozoya Taimyra. Trudy Nauchno-Issledoratel'skogo Instituta Geologii Arktiki 134:1-139

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

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Arcitreta, Arctitreta, Bothrostegium, Chelononia, Drahanorhynchus, Kiangsiella, Notostrophia, Pseudostreptorhynchus, Streptorhynchus, Tropidelasma

Subtaxa: Taimyropsis monstrosus

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Type: Taimyropsis monstrosus

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Bolshaya Bootonkaya River, Outcrop 119, Bed B, Taimyr Peninsula (Permian of Russian Federation)

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