Cooperithyris tenuicostata Tchorszhevsky 1988 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae

Full reference: E. S. Tchorszhevsky. 1988. Novye dannye o rannejurskikh Cancellothyrididasea (Terebratulida, Brachiopoda). Paleontologicheskii Sbornik 25:30-35

Belongs to Cooperithyris according to E. S. Tchorszhevsky 1988

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: KhGU 10/2297, a shell. Its type locality is Quarry at Katskhi village, which is in a Pliensbachian marine horizon in Georgia.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Quarry at Katskhi village

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