Laxispira Gabb 1876 (turret shell)

Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae

Full reference: W. M. Gabb. 1876. Notes on American Cretaceous Fossils with Descriptions of Some New Species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 28:276-324

Parent taxon: Vermiculariinae according to D. T. Dockery 1993

See also Sepkoski 2002 and Sohl 1964

Sister taxa: Pseudomesalia, Vermicularia

Subtaxa: Laxispira lumbricalis Laxispira monilifera Laxispira trochleata

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Type: Laxispira lumbricalis

Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Germany (1 collection), Poland (4), United States (106: Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)

Total: 111 collections including 112 occurrences

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