Komiella gilberti Johnson and Blodgett 1993 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Komiellidae

Full reference: J. G. Johnson and R. B. Blodgett. 1993. Russian Devonian Brachiopod Genera Cyrtinoides and Komiella in North America. Journal of Paleontology 67(6):952-958

Belongs to Komiella according to J. G. Johnson and R. B. Blodgett 1993

Sister taxa: Komiella magnasulca, Komiella stenoparva

Type specimen: USNM 466416, a shell. Its type locality is USGS 10063-SD. 3 m. thick silicified bed 82 m. below top of formation., which is in an Eifelian carbonate dolomite in the Cheeneetnuk Formation of Alaska.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at USGS 10063-SD. 3 m. thick silicified bed 82 m. below top of formation.

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