Heterelasma biplexiforme Schréter 1963 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Cryptonellidae

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 Heterelasma according to Z. Schréter 1963

Sister taxa: Dielasma (Heterelasma) semitarium, Heterelasma angulatum, Heterelasma concavum, Heterelasma contortum, Heterelasma contrerasi, Heterelasma geniculatum, Heterelasma gibbosum, Heterelasma glansfagea, Heterelasma leganyii, Heterelasma lenticularia, Heterelasma magnum, Heterelasma ngariensis, Heterelasma pentagonum, Heterelasma quadratum, Heterelasma shumardianum, Heterelasma solidum, Heterelasma sulciplicatum, Heterelasma venustulum

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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