†Pycnoria depressa Shi and Grant 1993 (lamp shell)
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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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