Acritosia ogamensis Tazawa 2016 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Productida - Cyclacanthariidae

Full reference: J. I. Tazawa. 2016. Taxonomic names, in A Kungurian (early Permian) brachiopod fauna from Ogama, Kuzu area, central Japan, and its palaeobiogeographical affinity with the Wolfcampian–Leonardian (early Permian) brachiopod fauna of West Texas, USA. Paleontological Research 20:367-384

Belongs to Acritosia according to J. I. Tazawa 2016

Sister taxa: Acritosia magna, Acritosia magnifica, Acritosia peculiaris, Acritosia silicica, Acritosia solida, Acritosia teguliferoides, Acritosia vestibula

Type specimen: KFM1956, a shell. Its type locality is OG-06, Ogama, Kuzu area, which is in a Kungurian carbonate limestone in the Nabeyama Formation of Japan.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at OG-06, Ogama, Kuzu area

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