Murinella walliensis Percival 1991 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Furcitellidae

Alternative combination: Oepikina walliensis

Full reference: I. Percival. 1991. Late Ordovician articulate brachiopods from central New South Wales, Australia. Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 11:107-177

Belongs to Murinella according to I. G. Percival 2009

See also Percival 1991

Sister taxa: Murinella biconvexa, Murinella jakutensis, Murinella muralis, Murinella partita

Type specimen: SUP68516, a valve (pedicle valve). Its type locality is L007. Licking Hole Creek, near Walli, which is in an Eastonian shallow subtidal limestone/lime mudstone in the Belubula Formation of Australia.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Ordovician of Australia (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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