Hunzina australasica Etheridge Jr. 1889 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Spiriferellidae

Alternative combinations: Cyrtina australasica, Spiriferella australasica

Full reference: R. Etheridge Jr. 1889. Remarks on fossils of Permo-Carboniferous age, from north-western Australia, in the Macleay Museum. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (Second Series) 4:199-214

Belongs to Hunzina according to J. B. Waterhouse 2004

See also Archbold and Thomas 1985, Etheridge 1889, Etheridge 1907 and Etheridge 1915

Sister taxa: Hunzina cundlegoensis, Hunzina electa, Hunzina elegantula, Hunzina etheridgei, Hunzina mushirebucaensis, Hunzina tenuisulcata

Type specimen: Its type locality is Mount Marmion, near junction of Lennard and Meda Rivers, which is in an Artinskian marine sandstone in the Noonkanbah Formation of Australia

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Australia (9 collections)

Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence

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