Zygopleura goldbergi Reiner 1968 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Zygopleuridae

Full reference: W. Reiner. 1968. Callovian gastropods from Hamakhtesh Hagadol (southern Israel). Israel Journal of Earth Sciences 17:171-198

Belongs to Zygopleura according to W. Reiner 1968

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 granietzensis, Zygopleura haasi, 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: Its type locality is Hamakhtesh Hagadol, Subunit 10, which is in a Callovian deep subtidal shelf limestone in the Zohar Formation of Israel

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Hamakhtesh Hagadol, Subunit 10

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