Palaeostylus giganticus Winters 1963 (snail)

Gastropoda - Cerithimorpha - Orthonemidae

Full reference: S. S. Winters. 1963. Supai Formation (Permian) of eastern Arizona. Geological Society of America Memoir 89:1-99

Belongs to Palaeostylus according to S. S. Winters 1963

Sister taxa: Palaeostylus (Palaeostylus), Palaeostylus acuminatus, Palaeostylus attenuatus, Palaeostylus bipartitus, Palaeostylus confragosus, Palaeostylus cylindrata, Palaeostylus delpeyae, Palaeostylus dongluoensis, Palaeostylus dussaulti, Palaeostylus fusuiensis, Palaeostylus guangxiensis, Palaeostylus irregularis, Palaeostylus lateapicatus, Palaeostylus minutus, Palaeostylus nervosus, Palaeostylus obliquicostatus, Palaeostylus planoverticum, Palaeostylus pseudozyga, Palaeostylus puperoides, Palaeostylus pupoides, Paleostylus krasnovidovoensis, Paleostylus krotovi, Paleostylus kukarkensis, Paleostylus stuckenbergi, Spiromphalus pervius

Type specimen: AMNH 28011/3:2, a shell. Its type locality is Cibecue Road, Locality 4, which is in a Kungurian shallow subtidal limestone in the Supai Formation of Arizona.

Ecology: epifaunal

Distribution:

• Permian of United States (4: Arizona collections)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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