Hecetastoma gehrelsi Rohr and Blodgett 2008 (snail)

Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Oriostomatidae

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 Hecetastoma according to D. M. Rohr and R. B. Blodgett 2008

Sister taxa: Hecetastoma clarki, Hecetastoma salteri

Type specimen: USNM 528229, a shell. Its type locality is 2002RB32, which is in a Ludlow carbonate wackestone/packstone in the Heceta Limestone Formation of Alaska.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at 2002RB32

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