Trentingula mazzinensis Posenato 2016 (lamp shell)

Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulidae

Full reference: R. Posenato. 2016. Systematics of lingulide brachiopods from the end-Permian mass extinction interval. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 122:85-108

Belongs to Trentingula according to R. Posenato 2016

Sister taxa: Trentingula lorigae, Trentingula prinothi

Type specimen: MPL 5923, a valve (dorsal valve). Its type locality is Malga Panna, Moena, Val di Fassa, which is in a Griesbachian transition zone/lower shoreface mudstone in the Werfen Formation of Italy.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Malga Panna, Moena, Val di Fassa

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