ammonites
Chivatschella orotschensis Zavodowsky 1968 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida

Full reference: V. M. Zavodowsky. 1968. Chivatschella. Novye Vidy Drevnikh Rasteniy i Bespozvonochnykh SSSR 2:125-126

Belongs to Chivatschella according to V. M. Zavodowsky 1968

Sister taxa: Ancistrorhynchoidea, Antistrixia, Apodosia, Barzellinia, Camarotoechioidea, Chapursania, Dimerelloidea, Disphenia, Dorsisinus, Hemithiridoidea, Isjuminelina, Lambdarinoidea, Laosia, Latirhynchia, Norelloidea, Omolonorhynchia, Pompoecilorhynchus, Praecyclothyrididae, Pseudonudirostra, Pugnacoidea, Rhynchonelloidea, Rhynchoporoidea, Rhynchotetradoidea, Rhynchotrematoidea, Sacothyropsis, Seminula, Stenoscismatoidea, Tatjamoa, Uncinuloidea, Uncinuloides, Wellerelloidea, Yunshanella, Payuella obscura, Plekonina spissatella, Pseudopugnax planissima, Altaethyrella zhejiangensis

Type specimen: TsGM 124/8234. Its type locality is Khivach River, 24 km from the source, Gizhiga Basin, which is in a Changhsingian carbonate limestone in the Khivach Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): valve 16.5 x 22.0