Palaeozygopleura orlejensis Gromczakiewicz-Lomnicka 1972 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Palaeozygopleuridae

Full reference: A. Gromczakiewicz-Lomnicka. 1972. Visean gastropods from Orlej near Cracow. Prace Muzeum Ziemi (20)3-43

Belongs to Palaeozygopleura according to A. Gromczakiewicz-Lomnicka 1972

Sister taxa: Palaeozygopleura (Palaeozygopleura), Palaeozygopleura alinae, Palaeozygopleura angulosum, Palaeozygopleura antiqua, Palaeozygopleura arcuata, Palaeozygopleura attenuata, Palaeozygopleura benniana, Palaeozygopleura bouskai, Palaeozygopleura canningensis, Palaeozygopleura chlupaci, Palaeozygopleura delphicola, Palaeozygopleura devonicans, Palaeozygopleura difficile, Palaeozygopleura dodgeyi, Palaeozygopleura funatum, Palaeozygopleura glabra, Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae, Palaeozygopleura incurvilineatum, Palaeozygopleura joani, Palaeozygopleura kaupii, Palaeozygopleura laeviusculum, Palaeozygopleura lamellosa, Palaeozygopleura laxa, Palaeozygopleura lefeburii, Palaeozygopleura lukesi, Palaeozygopleura missouriensis, Palaeozygopleura multiplicata, Palaeozygopleura muoni, Palaeozygopleura nexile, Palaeozygopleura noe, Palaeozygopleura obesa, Palaeozygopleura obliquearcuatum, Palaeozygopleura parva, Palaeozygopleura parvula, Palaeozygopleura piligera, Palaeozygopleura ranellaeforme, Palaeozygopleura rectistriatum, Palaeozygopleura redensis, Palaeozygopleura robroystonensis, Palaeozygopleura roemeri, Palaeozygopleura sandbergi, Palaeozygopleura scalaroides, Palaeozygopleura sibleyensis, Palaeozygopleura sicula, Palaeozygopleura styliola, Palaeozygopleura tenuicostata, Palaeozygopleura tenuisulcata, Palaeozygopleura terebra, Palaeozygopleura vaneki, Palaeozygopleura venusta, Palaeozygopleura verticalis, Palaeozygopleura vesna, Palaeozygopleura vostokovae, Palaeozygopleura welleri, Palaeozygopleura wortheni, Palaeozygopleura (Palaeozyga) tenuicostata, Palaeozyga prantli, Palaeozyga svobodai, Palaeozyga sulculosa, Palaeozyga roscobiensis, Palaeozyga bohemica, Palaeozyga hanusi

Type specimen: MZ VIII Mg 1037, a shell

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Orlej Quarry, Gluchowki, near Cracow (Kraków) (Carboniferous of Poland)

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