Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Mentzeliidae
Alternative combinations: Spirifer mentzeli, Spiriferina (Mentzelia) mentzelii
Synonym: Spirifer medianus Quenstedt 1871
Belongs to Mentzelia according to Z. Guo et al. 2019
See also Bittner 1890, Dagys 1974, Diener 1907, Feng and Jiang 1978, Iordan 1993, Jin et al. 1979, Palfy 2003, Torti and Angiolini 1997, Urosevic et al. 1992, Xu 1978 and Yang and Xu 1966
Sister taxa: none
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Austria (10 collections), Bosnia and Herzegovina (5), China (29), Croatia (1), Germany (1), Hungary (36), India (1), Italy (30), Romania (1), Serbia and Montenegro (5), Slovakia (3), Slovenia (1), Thailand (1), Vietnam (1)
Total: 125 collections including 126 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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