Karadagithyris boullierae Halamski and Cherif 2017 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Muirwoodellidae

Full reference: A. T. Halamski and A. Cherif. 2017. Oxfordian brachiopods from the Saïda and Frenda Mountains (Tlemcenian Domain, north-western Algeria). Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 87:141-145

Belongs to Karadagithyris according to A. T. Halamski and A. Cherif 2017

Sister taxa: Karadagithyris babanovae, Karadagithyris bilimeki, Karadagithyris carpathica, Karadagithyris eduardi, Karadagithyris gerda

Type specimen: UKM-LGS Bp 1/6, a shell. Its type locality is Outcrop B, Oued Tounkira, which is in an Oxfordian open shallow subtidal limestone in the Argiles de Saïda Formation of Algeria.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Outcrop B, Oued Tounkira

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