Paterula naukatensis Holmer et al. 2000 (lamp shell)

Lingulata - Lingulida - Paterulidae

Full reference: L. E. Holmer, L. E. Popov, and M. G. Bassett. 2000. Early Ordovician organophosphatic brachiopods with Baltoscandian affinities from the Alay Range, southern Kyrgyzstan. GFF 122(4):367-375

Belongs to Paterula according to L. E. Holmer et al. 2000

Sister taxa: Paterula balclatchiensis, Paterula bohemica, Paterula holynensis, Paterula numerosa, Paterula perfecta, Paterula polita, Paterula subcircularis

Type specimen: NMW 98.66G.5, a valve (ventral valve). Its type locality is Locality 15. East of Kirigizata (Kyrgyz-Ata), which is in a Floian carbonate limestone in the Pulgon Olistoliths Formation of Kazakhstan.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Locality 15. East of Kirigizata (Kyrgyz-Ata)

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