Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Alternative spelling: Sinuitina (Vorticina)
Full reference: M. Gordon and E. L. Yochelson. 1987. Late Mississippian gastropods of the Chainman Shale, West-Central Utah. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1368:1-112
Parent taxon: Tropidodiscidae according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Gordon and Yochelson 1987 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Groomodiscus, Kosorodiscus, Neimongolidiscus, Nylanderina, Sinuitina, Spirilira, Temnodiscinae, Tropidodiscus, Westraliadiscus, Zonidiscus
Subtaxa: Sinuitina (Vorticina) keytei Sinuitina (Vorticina) rugosiuscula Sinuitina (Vorticina) taeniata Sinuitina (Vorticina) venata Vorticina anneae Vorticina cyrtolites Vorticina vortex
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Permian of United States (1: Texas collection)
• Carboniferous of Morocco (1), United States (10: Arkansas, California, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Utah)
• Devonian of United States (8: Ohio)
Total: 20 collections each including a single occurrence
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