A permian productoid brachiopod: life history

Science. 1966 Apr 29;152(3722):660-2. doi: 10.1126/science.152.3722.660.

Abstract

Spine arrangements on silicified specimens of Waagenoconcha abichi (Waagen) from the Khisor Range of West Pakistan suggest that the juvenile shell attached itself to a foreign object, and that the adult shell lay on its ventral valve in the substrate, anchored and stabilized by a dense corona of long slender spines around the ventral visceral disc.