Pycnoria depressa Shi and Grant 1993 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae

Full reference: X. Shi and R. E. Grant. 1993. Jurassic rhynchonellids: internal structures and taxonomic revisions. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 73:1-190

Belongs to Pycnoria according to X. Shi and R. E. Grant 1993

Sister taxon: Pycnoria magna

Type specimen: USNM 429539. Its type locality is Northwest of Hamahtesh Hagadol (Upper Bathonian), which is in a Bathonian marine shale in the Zohar Formation of Israel.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Jurassic of Egypt (1 collection), Israel (3)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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