Piarorhynchia Buckman 1917 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae

Full reference: S. S. Buckman. 1917. The Brachiopoda of the Namyau Beds, Northern Shan States, Burma. Palaeontologia Indica 3(2):1-254

Parent taxon: Piarorhynchiinae according to A. Williams et al. 2002

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Abrekia, Aorhynchia, Caledorhynchia, Cuneirhynchia, Paranudirostralina, Ptilorhynchia, Rutorhynchia, Sakawairhynchia, Sinuplicorhynchia, Tainuirhynchia, Talovkorhynchia

Subtaxa: Piarorhynchia angustiplicata Piarorhynchia caroli Piarorhynchia deffneri Piarorhynchia diva Piarorhynchia formalis Piarorhynchia hamiltonensis Piarorhynchia howardi Piarorhynchia juvenis Piarorhynchia ochotica Piarorhynchia priborgavica Piarorhynchia radstockiensis Piarorhynchia rostellata Piarorhynchia thalia Piarorhynchia viligensis Piarorhynchia winnemae

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Type: Piarorhynchia radstockiensis

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Jurassic of Austria (5 collections), France (11), Greenland (1), Hungary (2), Italy (2), Portugal (3), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (1), Tunisia (1), Turkey (3), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (29)

• Triassic of Austria (2), Canada (3: British Columbia), Italy (9), Japan (1), the Russian Federation (24), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (2: Alaska, California)

Total: 102 collections including 114 occurrences

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