Pliothyrina orfordi Muir-Wood 1938

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebratulidae

Alternative combination: Terebratula orfordensis

Full reference: H. Muir-Wood. 1938. Notes on British Eocene and Pliocene Terebratulas. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eleventh Series 2:154-181

Belongs to Pliothyrina according to G. A. Cooper 1983

See also Muir-Wood 1938

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is Park Pit, Sudbourne (Walker collection), which is in a Zanclean coastal siliciclastic in the Coralline Crag Formation of the United Kingdom

Distribution: found only at Park Pit, Sudbourne (Walker collection)

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