ammonites
Hystriculina minima Cooper and Grant 1975 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae

Full reference: G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant. 1975. Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, III. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 19:795-1921

Belongs to Hystriculina according to G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant 1975

Sister taxa: Hystriculina convexa, Hystriculina dugoutensis, Hystriculina hystricula, Hystriculina orbignyana, Hystriculina pumila, Hystriculina sinica, Hystriculina sulcata, Hystriculina ventroplana, Hystriculina wabashensis

Type specimen: USNM 153898a, a shell (Articulated shell)

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): shell 9.90 x 12.84