Spinella talenti Johnson 1970 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Adolfiidae

Full reference: J. G. Johnson. 1970. Great Basin Lower Devonian Brachiopoda. Geological Society of America Special Paper (131)1-421

Belongs to Spinella according to J. G. Johnson 1970

Sister taxon: Spinella buchanensis

Type specimen: USNM 146536. Its type locality is USNM 12775. West slope of Lone Mountain, which is in an Emsian carbonate limestone in the McColley Canyon Formation of Nevada.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at USNM 12775. West slope of Lone Mountain

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