Sowerbyites vesciseptus Percival 1979 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Syndielasmatidae

Alternative combination: Bilobia vesciseptus

Full reference: I. G. Percival. 1979. Late Ordovician articulate brachiopods from Gunningbland, Central New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnaean Society of New South Wales 103:175-187

Belongs to Sowerbyites according to I. G. Percival et al. 2001

See also Cocks and Rong 1989 and Percival 1979

Sister taxa: Sowerbyites delicatus, Sowerbyites gildersleevei, Sowerbyites hami, Sowerbyites hibernicus, Sowerbyites isotes, Sowerbyites lamellosus, Sowerbyites medioseptatus, Sowerbyites subnasutus, Sowerbyites triseptatus, Sowerbyites wahringaensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is L051'Kurrajong Park', north of Gunningbland, which is in an Eastonian/Onnian submarine fan shale/sandstone in the Goonumbla Volcanics Formation of Australia.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at L051. 'Kurrajong Park', north of Gunningbland

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