Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae

Alternative combination: Sinuitina (Vorticina) vortex

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

Belongs to Vorticina according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Gordon and Yochelson 1987

Sister taxa: Sinuitina (Vorticina) keytei, Sinuitina (Vorticina) rugosiuscula, Sinuitina (Vorticina) taeniata, Sinuitina (Vorticina) venata, Vorticina anneae, Vorticina cyrtolites

Type specimen: USNM 210921, a shell. Its type locality is USGS 17018-PC. Granite Mountain, which is in a Meramecian carbonate limestone in the Chainman Shale Formation of Utah.

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at USGS 17018-PC. Granite Mountain

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