Crassispirifer acuta Waterhouse 2004 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 2004. Permian and Triassic stratigraphy and fossils of the Himalaya in northern Nepal. Earthwise 6:1-259

Belongs to Crassispirifer according to J. B. Waterhouse 2004

Sister taxa: Crassispirifer broilii, Crassispirifer chospochtschonicus, Crassispirifer condoni, Crassispirifer galinae, Crassispirifer jakuschewae, Crassispirifer kimberleyensis, Crassispirifer koargychanensis, Crassispirifer monumentalis, Crassispirifer pinguis, Crassispirifer rostalinus, Crassispirifer striatiformis, Crassispirifer timorensis, Crassispirifer transversa

Type specimen: UQF 74182. Its type locality is UQ L4581, quarry along highway north of Theodore, Bowen Basin, which is in a Wuchiapingian coastal siliciclastic in the Flat Top Formation of Australia.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at UQ L4581, quarry along highway north of Theodore, Bowen Basin

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