Spirigerella alataeformis Schréter 1963 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae

Full reference: Z. Schréter. 1963. Die Brachiopoden aus dem oberen Perm des Bükk-Gebirges in Nordungarn. Geologica Hungarica, Series Palaeontologica 28:87-153

Belongs to Spirigerella according to Z. Schréter 1963

Sister taxa: Spirigerella alata, Spirigerella bellistriata, Spirigerella derbyi, Spirigerella discors, Spirigerella fusiformis, Spirigerella gigas, Spirigerella grandis, Spirigerella heibayideensis, Spirigerella media, Spirigerella mendungensis, Spirigerella minuta, Spirigerella numismalis, Spirigerella obovata, Spirigerella ovoidalis, Spirigerella paraliensis, Spirigerella pertumida, Spirigerella praelonga, Spirigerella proxima, Spirigerella rectimarginata, Spirigerella subtriangularis, Spirigerella subtriquetra, Spirigerella teseroi, Athyrella hybrida

Type specimen: Its type locality is Nagyvisnyó Railway Cut 5 (Legányi coll), which is in a Wuchiapingian offshore lime mudstone in the Nagyvisnyo Formation of Hungary

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Nagyvisnyó Railway Cut 5 (Legányi coll)

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