Lepidospirifer miyakei Tazawa and Shen 1997 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae

Full reference: J. Tazawa and S. Z. Shen. 1997. Middle Permian brachiopods from Hiyomo, Mino Belt, central Japan: their provincial relationships with North America. Science Reports, Niigata University, Series E 12:1-17

Belongs to Lepidospirifer according to J. Tazawa and S. Z. Shen 1997

Sister taxa: Lepidospirifer angulatus, Lepidospirifer costellus, Lepidospirifer demissus, Lepidospirifer inferus

Type specimen: NU-B85. Its type locality is Ryomenkutsu, Hiyomo, Kohachigagawa Valley, which is in an Ufimian/Kubergandian carbonate limestone in Japan.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Ryomenkutsu, Hiyomo, Kohachigagawa Valley

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