†Musculina vraconnensis Middlemiss 1983 (lamp shell)
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Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
Full reference: F. A. Middlemiss. 1983. Lower Cretaceous Terebratulidae of the Jura region. Part 2, The Aptian fauna of La Presta and Noirvaux Dessus and the Upper Albian Fauna of La Vraconne. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 76(3):669-687
Belongs to Musculina according to F. A. Middlemiss 1983
Sister taxa: Musculina nikischini, Musculina nuciformis, Musculina sanctaecrucis
Type specimen: Basel Museum Collection 12029/1, a shell. Its type locality is La Vraconne, which is in an Albian carbonate limestone in Switzerland.
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at La Vraconne
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