Cracowspira laminatus Waterhouse 1987 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae

Alternative combination: Fusispirifer laminatus

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1987. Late Palaeozoic Brachiopoda (Athyrida, Spiriferida and Terebratulida) from the southeast Bowen Basin, east Australia. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 196(1-3):1-56

Belongs to Cracowspira according to J. B. Waterhouse 2004

See also Waterhouse 1987

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UQF 74179. Its type locality is UQ L4571, Rose's Pride Mine, which is in an Artinskian coastal sandstone/conglomerate in the Buffel Formation of Australia.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at UQ L4571, Rose's Pride Mine

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