Tropeothyris luancensis Middlemiss 1984 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae

Full reference: F. A. Middlemiss. 1984. Lower Cretaceous Terebratulidae of the Jura region. Part 3, Terebratula salevensis de Loriol and the genera Praelongithyris and Tropeothyris. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 77(3):583-617

Belongs to Tropeothyris according to F. A. Middlemiss 1984

Sister taxa: Tropeothyris allavensis, Tropeothyris bieskidensis, Tropeothyris cyclogonia, Tropeothyris funtanensis, Tropeothyris immanis, Tropeothyris islarensis, Tropeothyris isomorpha, Tropeothyris kugusemi, Tropeothyris pilati, Tropeothyris testatus, Tropeothyris tychoviensis, Tropeothyris vectis

Type specimen: BB 84712, a shell. Its type locality is San Pedro de Antromero, Luanco, which is in an Aptian marine horizon in Spain.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at San Pedro de Antromero, Luanco

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