Ornithella digonoides Buckman 1913 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae

Belongs to Ornithella according to Buckman 1913

Sister taxa: Ornithella (Delmontanella), Ornithella blumbergensis, Ornithella boxensis, Ornithella curticensis, Ornithella douvillei, Ornithella expolita, Ornithella gemina, Ornithella jomdaensis, Ornithella longa, Ornithella moeschi, Ornithella pentagonalis, Ornithella pseudolagenalis, Ornithella sichuanensis, Ornithella skidegatensis, Ornithella syringothyrides, Microthyridina farquharsoni

Type specimen: Its type locality is Wootton, which is in a Bathonian marine horizon in the Blisworth Clay Formation of the United Kingdom

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Jurassic of France (1 collection), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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