ammonites
Heteralosia iphia Grant 1976 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Productida - Strophalosiidae

Full reference: R. E. Grant. 1976. Permian brachiopods from southern Thailand. Paleontological Society Memoir 9:1-269

Belongs to Heteralosia according to R. E. Grant 1976

Sister taxa: Heteralosia alexandrae, Heteralosia complectens, Heteralosia haerens, Heteralosia hystricula, Heteralosia magnispina, Heteralosia mexicana, Heteralosia paucispinosa, Heteralosia tenuispina, Heteralosia vidriensis, Strophalosia (Heteralosia) sublamellata, Strophalosia (Heteralosia) tenuispina

Type specimen: USNM 212038, a shell (Articulated shell). Its type locality is USNM9271, Block 1, Ko Muk Island northeast, which is in a Roadian offshore shelf limestone in the Rat Buri Formation of Thailand.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): valve 8.12 x 9.82