Praelongithyris Middlemiss 1959 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae

Full reference: F. A. Middlemiss. 1959. English Aptian Terebratulidae. Palaeontology 2(1):94-142

Parent taxon: Rectithyridinae according to A. Williams et al. 2006

See also Cooper 1993 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Collinithyris, Cyrtothyris, Moutonithyris, Neoliothyrina, Rectithyris, Rhombothyris, Tropeothyris

Subtaxa: Praelongithyris borealis Praelongithyris lankesteri Praelongithyris manuanensis Praelongithyris pajaudi Praelongithyris praelonga Praelongithyris praelongiforma Praelongithyris salevensis Praelongithyris vanhoepeni Praelongithyris xiongmeinensis

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Type: Praelongithyris praelongiforma

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Algeria (1 collection), Austria (1), China (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (6), Germany (4), Greenland (1), Kazakhstan (1), South Africa (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), Switzerland (2), the United Kingdom (17)

Total: 41 collections including 44 occurrences

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