Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Zygopleuridae
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 Zygopleura according to R. L. Batten and W.L. Stokes 1986
Sister taxa: Zygopleura (Allostrophia), Zygopleura (Xizangospira), Zygopleura angulata, Zygopleura arctecostata, Zygopleura benoisti, Zygopleura brevis, Zygopleura cylindrica, Zygopleura dubia, Zygopleura dubia, Zygopleura etalensis, Zygopleura geniculata, Zygopleura goldbergi, Zygopleura granietzensis, Zygopleura hybrida, Zygopleura nitida, Zygopleura numidis, Zygopleura porulosa, Zygopleura roessleri, Zygopleura simplex, Zygopleura spiralina, Zygopleura swalloviana, Zygopleura tunisiensis, Zygopleura verrucosa, Zygopleura walmstedti, Zygopleura yunnanensis
Type specimen: AMNH 42987. 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: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 4.61
Distribution: found only at AMNH3026, Windowblind Butte, San Rafael Swell
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