Hemizyga (Plocezyga) angularis Knight 1930 (snail)

Gastropoda - Zygopleuroidea - Pseudozygopleuridae

Full reference: J. B. Knight. 1930. The gastropods of the St. Louis, Missouri, Pennsylvanian outlier: the Pseudozygopleurinae. Journal of Paleontology Memoir 4(1):1-88

Belongs to Hemizyga (Plocezyga) according to J. B. Knight 1930

Sister taxa: Hemizyga (Plocezyga) abolescens, Hemizyga (Plocezyga) convertacostata, Hemizyga (Plocezyga) serocorona, Hemizyga (Plocezyga) tenuis, Plocezyga (Plocezyga), Plocezyga acuminata, Plocezyga boikoi, Plocezyga conica, Plocezyga convexa, Plocezyga cordiformis, Plocezyga corona, Plocezyga costata, Plocezyga delicata, Plocezyga excellens, Plocezyga gruendeli, Plocezyga indica, Plocezyga intermedia, Plocezyga lineata, Plocezyga lirata, Plocezyga markae, Plocezyga minuta, Plocezyga obscura, Plocezyga ornata, Plocezyga ornatissima, Plocezyga percostata, Plocezyga perminuta, Plocezyga regularia, Plocezyga salomonense, Plocezyga subnodosa, Plocezyga subquadrata, Plocezyga tenuilirata, Plocezyga turbinata, Plocezyga venusta

Type specimen: YPM 12994, a shell. Its type locality is SL-1. Headwaters of Feefee Creek, north of Olive St. & west of Lindberg Blvd., 1.5 km northwest of Stratmann (Olivette), which is in a Moscovian offshore shale in the Appanoose Formation of Missouri.

Ecology: epifaunal

Distribution: found only at SL-1. Headwaters of Feefee Creek, north of Olive St. & west of Lindberg Blvd., 1.5 km northwest of Stratmann (Olivette)

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