Discinisca davisi Muir-Wood 1939 (lamp shell)

Lingulata - Discinida - Disciniidae

Full reference: H. M. Muir-Wood. 1939. Four species of Discinisca (Brachiopoda) from the Eocene of the Hampshire Basin. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 50:149-158

Belongs to Discinisca according to H. M. Muir-Wood 1939

Sister taxa: Discinisca circularis, Discinisca conviva, Discinisca cumingii, Discinisca fallens, Discinisca ferroviae, Discinisca holdeni, Discinisca infraoolithica, Discinisca insularis, Discinisca jenkinsi, Discinisca kamikatetuensis, Discinisca laevis, Discinisca lamellosa, Discinisca loeli, Discinisca lugubris, Discinisca messii, Discinisca oregonensis, Discinisca perrini, Discinisca porvenir, Discinisca scutellum, Discinisca steiningeri, Discinisca strigata, Discinisca yaroslavensis

Type specimen: BMNH BB I444, a valve. Its type locality is Slipway and Mr. Rendtorff's house, Bracklesham Bay, which is in a Lutetian marine siliciclastic in the Earnley Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Slipway and Mr. Rendtorff's house, Bracklesham Bay

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