†Rochatorhynchia rochatensis Kats 1962 (lamp shell)
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Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Full reference: Y. I. Kats. 1962. New genera of Late Cretaceous brachiopods of the Tadzhik depression and adjacent regions. Zapiski Geologicheskogo Otdeleniya Kharkovskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta 15:132-154
Belongs to Rochatorhynchia according to Y. I. Kats 1962
Sister taxon: Rochatorhynchia lata
Type specimen: No. 4--778/1. Its type locality is Novobad, Dushanbe, which is in a Maastrichtian marine sandstone in Tajikistan.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Tajikistan (7 collections), Uzbekistan (1)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
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