Tenuichonetes tzunyiensis Huang 1932 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae

Alternative combinations: Chonetes tsunyiensis, Tenuichonetes tsunyiensis

Full reference: T. K. Huang. 1932. Late Permian Brachiopoda of southwestern China. Palaeontologia Sinica, Series B 9(1):1-138

Belongs to Tenuichonetes according to S. Z. Shen et al. 2017

See also Huang 1932, Jin and Hu 1978 and Shen and Archbold 2002

Sister taxa: Tenuichonetes lateala, Tenuichonetes plicatiformis, Tenuichonetes subquadrata, Tenuichonetes tengchongensis, Tenuichonetes tenuilirata, Tenuichonetes xizangensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Shihtzup'u T39 (Wuchiapingian), Tsunyi-hsien, which is in a Wuchiapingian carbonate limestone in China

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Shihtzup'u T39 (Wuchiapingian), Tsunyi-hsien

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