Pontielasma Waterhouse and Piyasin 1970 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Cranaenidae

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse and S. Piyasin. 1970. Mid-Permian brachiopods from Khao Phrik, Thailand. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 135(3-6):83-197

Parent taxon: Cranaeninae according to A. Williams et al. 2006

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Anomalesia, Costacranaena, Cranaena, Hamburgia, Maclarenella, Planothyris

Subtaxa: Pontielasma praeundatum

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Type: Pontielasma praeundatum

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Khao Phrik, Rat Buri (Permian of Thailand)

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