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), New Caledonia (1), Poland (1), Serbia and Montenegro (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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