Kozlowskites gracilis Jones 1928 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae

Alternative combinations: Anisopleurella gracilis, Eoplectodonta gracilis, Sowerbyella gracilis

Full reference: O. T. Jones. 1928. Plectambonites and some allied genera. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Palaeontology 1:367-527

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

See also Cocks 2005 and Jones 1928

Sister taxa: Eoplectodonta (Kozlowskites) ichnusae, Eoplectodonta (Kozlowskites) nuntius, Eoplectodonta (Kozlowskites) yichangensis, Kozlowskites nuntius

Type specimen: GSM 37554. Its type locality is Locality K, railway cutting south of Haverfordwest, which is in a Hirnantian carbonate mudstone in the Haverford Mudstone Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Silurian of the United Kingdom (54 collections)

• Ordovician of the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 55 collections each including a single occurrence

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