Kirkospira glacialis Rohr and Blodgett 2001 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Plethospiridae

Full reference: D. M. Rohr and R. B. Blodgett. 2001. Kirkospira, a new Silurian gastropod from Glacier Bay, southeastern Alaska. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1678:117-120

Belongs to Kirkospira according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Rohr and Blodgett 2001

Sister taxa: Kirkospira lindstroemi, Kirkospira tongassensis, Kirkospira vitellia

Type specimen: Its type locality is Kirk locality 993, which is in a Gorstian/Ludfordian carbonate limestone in the Willoughby Limestone Formation of Alaska

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Silurian of United States (3: Alaska collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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