Ambozone rasmusseni Batten 1972 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae

Full reference: R. L. Batten. 1972. Permian gastropods and chitons from Perak, Malaysia. Part I. Chitons, bellerophontids, euomphalids and pleurotomarians. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 147:1-44

Belongs to Ambozone according to R. L. Batten 1972

Sister taxa: Ambozone dictyonema, Ambozone haydeniana, Ambozone nodosa, Ambozone obscura, Ambozone peoriensis, Ambozone verneuli

Type specimen: AMNH 29033, a shell. Its type locality is H.S. Lee Mine No. 8, Kinta Valley near Kampar, which is in a Kungurian shallow subtidal limestone in the H. S. Lee Formation of Malaysia.

Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 13.5

Distribution: found only at H.S. Lee Mine No. 8, Kinta Valley near Kampar

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