Nipponithyris snisiyamai Hatai 1948 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Dallinidae

Full reference: K. Hatai. 1948. New Tertiary Brachiopoda from Japan. Journal of Paleontology 22:494-499

Belongs to Nipponithyris according to K. Hatai 1948

Sister taxa: Nipponithyris afra, Nipponithyris fijiensis, Nipponithyris lauensis, Nipponithyris nipponensis, Nipponithyris notoensis, Nipponithyris tayaensis, Nipponithyris yabei, Isumithyris kazusaensis, Nipponithyris (Miyakothyris) subovata

Type specimen: IGPS 72535, a shell. Its type locality is Cliff north of Taya, Iwami-Sannai-mura, which is in a Calabrian marine siliciclastic in the Taya Formation of Japan.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Cliff north of Taya, Iwami-Sannai-mura

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