Kutchithyris fulva Buckman 1917 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae

Full reference: S. S. Buckman. 1917. The Brachiopoda of the Namyau Beds, Northern Shan States, Burma. Palaeontologia Indica 3(2):1-254

Belongs to Kutchithyris according to S. S. Buckman 1917

Sister taxa: Kutchithyris acutiplicata, Kutchithyris amdoensis, Kutchithyris anongensis, Kutchithyris breviplicata, Kutchithyris brivesi, Kutchithyris challinori, Kutchithyris dengqenensis, Kutchithyris dhosaensis, Kutchithyris egregia, Kutchithyris euryptycha, Kutchithyris ferrandii, Kutchithyris hendersoni, Kutchithyris hypsogonia, Kutchithyris ingluviosa, Kutchithyris jooraensis, Kutchithyris katametopa, Kutchithyris kennedyi, Kutchithyris lingularis, Kutchithyris marokopaensis, Kutchithyris mitra, Kutchithyris mulaensis, Kutchithyris pentagonalis, Kutchithyris planiconvexa, Kutchithyris propinqua, Kutchithyris pygmae, Kutchithyris pyroidea, Kutchithyris tibetica, Kutchithyris zamdaensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Bradford-on-Avon (Tutcher Coll.), which is in a Bathonian carbonate limestone/claystone in the Forest Marble Formation of the United Kingdom

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Bradford-on-Avon (Tutcher Coll.)

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