Gamizyga girtyi Hoare and Sturgeon 1980 (snail)

Gastropoda - Zygopleuroidea - Pseudozygopleuridae

Alternative combination: Gamizyga (Gamizyga) girtyi

Full reference: R. D. Hoare and M. T. Sturgeon. 1980. The Pennsylvanian pseudozygopleurid gastropod genus Gamizyga n. gen. from Ohio and West Virginia. Journal of Paleontology 54(1):159-187

Belongs to Gamizyga according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Hoare and Sturgeon 1980

Sister taxa: Gamizyga (Gamizyga), Gamizyga corpulentissima, Gamizyga expansa, Gamizyga morningstarae, Gamizyga nitida

Type specimen: Its type locality is Ty-3 60 cm shale zone, immediately above limestone at mall abandoned borrow pi, which is in a Desmoinesian shallow subtidal limestone/shale in the Putnam Hill Formation of Ohio.

Ecology: epifaunal

Distribution: found only at Ty-3. 60 cm shale zone, immediately above limestone at mall abandoned borrow pi

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