Sinuitina (Vorticina) keytei Yochelson 1960 (snail)

Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae

Alternative combination: Sinuitina keytei

Full reference: E. L. Yochelson. 1960. Permian Gastropoda of the southwestern United States. 3. Bellerophontacea and Patellacea. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 119(4):208-293

Belongs to Vorticina according to M. Gordon and E. L. Yochelson 1987

See also Yochelson 1960

Sister taxa: Sinuitina (Vorticina) rugosiuscula, Sinuitina (Vorticina) taeniata, Sinuitina (Vorticina) venata, Vorticina anneae, Vorticina cyrtolites, Vorticina vortex

Type specimen: Its type locality is USGS 6694, Sullivan Peak, Glass Mountains, which is in a Kungurian carbonate limestone in the Cathedral Mountain Formation of Texas

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at USGS 6694, Sullivan Peak, Glass Mountains

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