†Kirkospira tongassensis Rohr and Blodgett 2008 (snail)
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Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Plethospiridae
Alternative combination: Baichtalia tongassensis
Full reference: D. M. Rohr and R. B. Blodgett. 2008. Silurian Gastropoda from the Alexander terrane, southeast Alaska. Geological Society of America Special Paper 442:51-61
Belongs to Kirkospira according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Rohr and Blodgett 2008
Sister taxa: Kirkospira glacialis, Kirkospira lindstroemi, Kirkospira vitellia
Type specimen: USNM 528224, a shell. Its type locality is 2002RB32, which is in a Ludlow carbonate wackestone/packstone in the Heceta Limestone Formation of Alaska.
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at 2002RB32
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