Spirigera borovacensis Kittl 1903 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae

Full reference: E. Kittl. 1903. Geologie der Umgebung von Sarajevo. Jahrbuch der kaiserlich-königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt 53:515-748

Belongs to Spirigera according to E. Kittl 1903

Sister taxa: Spirigera (Didymospira), Spirigera forojulensis, Spirigera kaihikuana, Spirigera kittlii, Spirigera manzavinii, Spirigera manzavinioides, Spirigera milesi, Spirigera misolica, Spirigera monticola, Spirigera oppelii, Spirigera pseudodielasma, Spirigera schloenbachii, Spirigera sellaris, Spirigera siljanensis, Spirigera stoliczkai, Spirigera subindistincta, Spirigera sufflata, Spirigera tricupii, Spirigera wreyi

Type specimen: Its type locality is NW of Borovac, which is in an Anisian carbonate limestone in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at NW of Borovac

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