Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae

Full reference: D. M. Rohr, R. B. Blodgett, and J. Frýda. 2008. Silurian Gastropoda from Southeastern and West-Central Alaska. Journal of Paleontology 82(3):604-611

Belongs to Morania according to D. M. Rohr et al. 2008

Sister taxa: Morania altevittata, Morania attenuatum, Morania boltoni, Morania declivis, Morania griffithi, Morania nixonforkensis, Morania paradoxa, Morania vsinuata

Type specimen: USNM 534461, a shell. Its type locality is 2004R-1, south side of logging road, Twin Mountains area, Prince Wales Island, which is in a Ludlow carbonate wackestone in the Heceta Limestone Formation of Alaska.

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at 2004R-1, south side of logging road, Twin Mountains area, Prince Wales Island

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