Austroscalata marina Waterhouse 1987 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Phymatopleuridae

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1987. Late Palaeozoic Mollusca and correlations from the south-east Bowen Basin, east Australia. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 198(4-6):129-233

Belongs to Austroscalata according to J. B. Waterhouse 1987

Sister taxon: Austroscalata branxtonensis

Type specimen: UQF 5088, a shell. Its type locality is UQ L3099, Baralaba-Rannes road, which is in a Wuchiapingian coastal sandstone in the Flat Top Formation of Australia.

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at UQ L3099, Baralaba-Rannes road

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