Christiania skolia Percival 1991 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Christianiidae

Full reference: I. Percival. 1991. Late Ordovician articulate brachiopods from central New South Wales, Australia. Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 11:107-177

Belongs to Christiania according to I. Percival 1991

Sister taxa: Christiania aseptata, Christiania bilobata, Christiania dalarnensis, Christiania egregia, Christiania elongata, Christiania hastata, Christiania hollii, Christiania holtedahli, Christiania huanghuaensis, Christiania magna, Christiania nilssoni, Christiania perrugata, Christiania portlocki, Christiania proclivis, Christiania subquadrata, Christiania sulcata, Christiania tenuicincta, Christiania trentonensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is L024. Bingara, Licking Hole Creek, near Walli, which is in an Eastonian deep subtidal shelf limestone in the Vandon Limestone Formation of Australia.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Ordovician of Australia (3 collections), Kazakhstan (1)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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