Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae
Alternative combination: Leptoptygma australe
Synonyms: Decorochilina ornata Tassell 1982, Ianthinopsis ornatus Tassell 1982
Full reference: C. B. Tassell. 1982. Gastropods from the Early Devonian "Receptaculites" Limestone, Taemas, New South Wales. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum 77:1-59
Belongs to Decorochilina according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Tassell 1982
Sister taxa: Decorochilina aulakion, Decorochilina beushauseni, Decorochilina bohemica, Decorochilina cancellata, Decorochilina capillosa, Decorochilina costata, Decorochilina crassior, Decorochilina dispar, Decorochilina evoluta, Decorochilina frechi, Decorochilina phillipsii, Decorochilina queenslandicus, Decorochilina recticosta, Decorochilina rectistriata, Decorochilina robusta, Decorochilina whidbornei
Type specimens:
- Decorochilina australe: Its type locality is Chatterton Loc. B, lower half of Receptaculites Lst, near Yass, NSW, which is in an Emsian marine lime mudstone/grainstone in the Taemas Formation of Australia.
- Decorochilina ornata: Its type locality is Chatterton Loc. B, lower half of Receptaculites Lst, near Yass, NSW, which is in an Emsian marine lime mudstone/grainstone in the Taemas Formation of Australia.
Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal carnivore-detritivore
Distribution: found only at Chatterton Loc. B, lower half of Receptaculites Lst, near Yass, NSW
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