Wairakispirifer microstriatus Waterhouse 1964 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae

Alternative combination: Notospirifer microstriatus

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1964. Permian brachiopods of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Palaeontological Bulletin 35:1-212

Belongs to Wairakispirifer according to J. B. Waterhouse 1998

See also Hyden et al. 1982, Waterhouse 1968 and Waterhouse 1987

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NZGS BR 707. Its type locality is GS6323, east tributary of Letham Burn (D44/f9672), which is in a Roadian marine horizon in the Letham Formation of New Zealand.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Australia (1 collection), New Zealand (6)

Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence

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