Australispira Percival 1991 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Atrypinidae

Alternative spelling: Australospira

Full reference: I. Percival. 1991. Late Ordovician articulate brachiopods from central New South Wales, Australia. Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 11:107-177

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

See also Popov et al. 1999 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Eospirigerina, Hectoria, Neospirigerina, Pectenospira, Qilianotryma, Rhynchogilviella, Schachriomonia, Spirigerina, Sulcatospira

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Ordovician of Australia (18 collections)

Total: 18 collections each including a single occurrence

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