Gunnarella mcdermotti Cocks 2014 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophomenidae

Full reference: L. R. M. Cocks. 2014. The Late Ordovician brachiopods of southern Pembrokeshire and adjacent south-western Wales. Special Papers in Palaeontology 91:1-89

Belongs to Gunnarella according to L. R. M. Cocks 2014

Sister taxa: Gunnarella corrugata, Gunnarella corrugatella, Gunnarella delta, Gunnarella magnifica, Strophomena (Gunnarella) beta

Type specimen: BC 60083, a valve (dorsal valve internal mould). Its type locality is Southeast end of railway cutting at Sholeshook Farm, which is in a Cautleyan marine horizon in the Sholeshook Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Ordovician of the United Kingdom (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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