Moutonithyris anglia Owen 1988 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae

Full reference: E. F. Owen. 1988. Cenomanian brachiopods from the Lower Chalk of Britain and northern Europe. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 44(2):65-175

Belongs to Moutonithyris according to E. F. Owen 1988

Sister taxa: Moutonithyris dutempleana, Moutonithyris dutempliana, Moutonithyris moutoniana, Atactosia obtusa, Biplicatoria hunstantonensis, Biplicatoria ferruginea

Type specimen: BB82262, a shell. Its type locality is Hunstanton Red Rock Bed C, which is in an Albian offshore chalk in the Red Chalk Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Hunstanton Red Rock Bed C

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