Mendacella megacircularis Jin and Zhan 2008 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Rhipidomellidae

Full reference: J. Jin and R. Zhan. 2008. Late Ordovician Orthide and Billingsellide Brachiopods from Anticosti Island, Eastern Canada: Diversity Change Through Mass Extinction. National Research Council of Canada Monograph Series

Belongs to Mendacella according to J. Jin and R. Zhan 2008

Sister taxa: Mendacella aerinensis, Mendacella bleikeriensis, Mendacella borrbyensis, Mendacella circularis, Mendacella lata, Mendacella mullockiensis, Mendacella phiala, Mendacella sola, Mendacella uberis, Mendacella udauberis

Type specimen: Its type locality is A1364. Main road, Lousy Cove Area, which is in a Hirnantian carbonate lime mudstone/lime mudstone in the Ellis Bay Formation of Canada.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Ordovician of Canada (2: Quebec collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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