Woolnoughia Dickins 1963 (Mourlonia)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae

Alternative spelling: Mourlonia (Woolnoughia)

Full reference: J. M. Dickins. 1963. Permian pelecypods and gastropods from western Australia. Bulletin of the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics 63:1-203

Parent taxon: Glabrocingulides according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Dickins 1963

Sister taxa: Abylea, Ananias, Baylea, Bradyospira, Glabrocingulum, Hypselentoma, Lacunospira, Mourlonopsis, Nipponomaria, Pandospira, Plocostoma, Pseudobaylea, Shwedagonia, Sokella, Spiraculinella, Stenozone, Walnichollsia

Subtaxa: Woolnoughia angulata

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Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Fossil Cliff, Irwin River (UWA collection) (Permian of Australia)

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