Pliothyrina harmeri Bell 1921 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebratulidae

Alternative combination: Terebratula harmeri

Belongs to Pliothyrina according to G. A. Cooper 1983

See also Muir-Wood 1938

Sister taxa: Pliothyrina grandis, Pliothyrina orfordi, Pliothyrina sowerbyana, Apletosia maxima

Type specimen: Its type locality is Waldringfield, Suffolk (Wood collection), which is in a Gelasian coastal siliciclastic in the Red Crag Formation of the United Kingdom

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of the United Kingdom (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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