Chartronella pagina Batten and Stokes 1986 (snail)

Gastropoda - Trochoidea - Colloniidae

Full reference: R. L. Batten and W.L. Stokes. 1986. Early Triassic gastropods from the Sinbad Member of the Moenkopi Formation, San Rafael Swell, Utah. American Museum Novitates 2864:1-33

Belongs to Chartronella according to R. L. Batten and W.L. Stokes 1986

Sister taxa: Chartronella gradata, Chartronella grossouvrei, Chartronella longjubaensis, Chartronella maedai, Chartronella noszkyi, Chartronella philemon, Chartronella unicostata

Type specimen: AMNH 42974. Its type locality is AMNH3026, Windowblind Butte, San Rafael Swell, which is in a Smithian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal packstone in the Moenkopi Formation of Utah.

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 5.40

Distribution: found only at AMNH3026, Windowblind Butte, San Rafael Swell

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