Hemizyga (Plocezyga) convertacostata Hoare 1961 (snail)

Gastropoda - Zygopleuroidea - Pseudozygopleuridae

Full reference: R. D. Hoare. 1961. Desmoinesian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from southwest Missouri. Missouri University Studies 36:1-262

Belongs to Hemizyga (Plocezyga) according to R. D. Hoare 1961

Sister taxa: Hemizyga (Plocezyga) abolescens, Hemizyga (Plocezyga) angularis, 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: U.Iowa J.B. Owen Coll. 6152, a shell. Its type locality is Loc. 39. Banks of Honey Creek near point where country road crosses stream at ford, ~2 miles north of Harvey, which is in a Desmoinesian marine shale in the Cabaniss Formation of Missouri.

Ecology: epifaunal

Distribution: found only at Loc. 39. Banks of Honey Creek near point where country road crosses stream at ford, ~2 miles north of Harvey

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