Avonothyris bella Buckman 1917 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae

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

Belongs to Avonothyris according to S. S. Buckman 1917

Sister taxa: Avonothyris bradfordensis, Avonothyris corpulenta, Avonothyris corrugata, Avonothyris depressa, Avonothyris distorta, Avonothyris gigantea, Avonothyris jordanensis, Avonothyris langtonensis, Avonothyris nannodes, Avonothyris obovalis, Avonothyris plicatina, Avonothyris sogxianensis, Avonothyris subpentagona, Avonothyris sulcifera, Avonothyris trigonata, Avonothyris variabilis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Tetbury Road Railway Station, which is in a Bathonian marine horizon in the Forest Marble Formation of the United Kingdom

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Tetbury Road Railway Station

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