Mendacella phiala Whittard and Barker 1950 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Rhipidomellidae

Full reference: W. F. Whittard and G. H. Barker. 1950. The Upper Valentian brachiopod fauna of Shropshire, part 1: Inarticulata: Articulata, Protremata, Orthoidea. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 12th Series 3(31):553-590

Belongs to Mendacella according to W. F. Whittard and G. H. Barker 1950

Sister taxa: Mendacella aerinensis, Mendacella bleikeriensis, Mendacella borrbyensis, Mendacella circularis, Mendacella lata, Mendacella megacircularis, Mendacella mullockiensis, Mendacella sola, Mendacella uberis, Mendacella udauberis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Shropshire, Purple Shale, which is in a Telychian marine shale/limestone in the Purple Shale Formation of the United Kingdom

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Silurian of the United Kingdom (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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