Dendropupa primaeva Matthew 1895 (snail)

Gastropoda - Dendropupoidea - Dendropupidae

Alternative combinations: Maturipupa primaeva, Pupa primaeva

Full reference: G. F. Matthew. 1895. On the organic remains of the Little River Group, No. II. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 4:89-100

Belongs to Dendropupa according to A. Solem and E. L. Yochelson 1979

See also Matthew 1895 and Yochelson and Saunders 1967

Sister taxon: Dendropupa vetusta

Type specimen: Its type locality is Fern Ledges, Plant bed 2, Carleton, Saint John, which is in a Westphalian A estuary/bay shale in the Lancaster Formation of Canada

Ecology: epifaunal

Distribution: found only at Fern Ledges, Plant bed 2, Carleton, Saint John

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