Gastropoda - Zygopleuroidea - Pseudozygopleuridae
Alternative spelling: Microptychia
Full reference: J. D. Longstaff. 1912. Some new lower Carboniferous Gastropoda. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 68:295-309
Parent taxon: Pseudozygopleurinae according to J. B. Knight et al. 1960
See also Hoare 1961, Hoare and Sturgeon 1981, Horný 1955, Pan and Erwin 2002 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Bandelzyga, Cyclozyga, Eoptychia, Gamizyga, Helminthozyga, Hemizyga, Hyphantozyga, Levizygopleura, Plocezyga, Pseudoplocezyga, Pseudozygopleura, Stephanozyga
Subtaxa: Microptychis cerithiformis Microptychis constricta Microptychis expetendus Microptychis insolita Microptychis occabus Microptychis permiana Microptychis pygmaea Microptychis turbineus Microptychis wrighti
Ecology: epifaunal
Distribution:
• Permian of Malaysia (1 collection)
• Carboniferous of Canada (1: Alberta), Ireland (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (12: New Mexico, Ohio, Texas)
Total: 18 collections including 22 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.