Retzia King 1850 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Retziidae

Full reference: W. King. 1850. Monograph of the Permian fossils of England. Palaeontographical Society 1-253

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

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Acambona, Eumetria

Subtaxa: Retzia arara Retzia compressa Retzia himaica Retzia magnifica Retzia oxyrhynchus Retzia pachygaster Retzia procerrima Retzia radialis Retzia taramellii Retzia truncata

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Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of Austria (2 collections), Bosnia and Herzegovina (4), Hungary (4), India (2), Italy (5), Montenegro (1), New Caledonia (1), Poland (1), Slovakia (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2)

• Permian of China (1), United States (1: California)

• Carboniferous to Permian of United States (1: California)

• Carboniferous of United States (2: California, Indiana)

• Devonian of Afghanistan (1), Algeria (1), Italy (1), the Russian Federation (2), Tajikistan (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Silurian to Devonian of Tajikistan (1)

• Silurian of Austria (1), Tajikistan (2)

Total: 40 collections including 49 occurrences

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