Fasciculatia angulata Waterhouse 2004 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae

Alternative combination: Gobbettifera angulata

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 2004. Permian and Triassic stratigraphy and fossils of the Himalaya in northern Nepal. Earthwise 6:1-259

Belongs to Fasciculatia according to S. Lee et al. 2016

See also Waterhouse 2004

Sister taxa: Fasciculatia adpressa, Fasciculatia groenwalli, Fasciculatia incertiplicata, Fasciculatia striatoparadoxa

Type specimen: GSC 13748, a shell. Its type locality is GSC 26406, Lyall River, Grinnell Peninsula, Devon Island, which is in a Roadian offshore shelf sandstone/limestone in the Assistance Formation of Canada.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at GSC 26406, Lyall River, Grinnell Peninsula, Devon Island

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