Pseudozygopleura (Stephanozyga) nishimurai Kase 1988 (snail)

Gastropoda - Zygopleuroidea - Pseudozygopleuridae

Full reference: T. Kase. 1988. Early Carboniferous (Viséan) gastropods from the Hikoroichi Formation of the Kitakami Mountains, northeast Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan 149:361-370

Belongs to Pseudozygopleura (Stephanozyga) according to T. Kase 1988

Sister taxa: Pseudozygopleura (Stephanozyga) lisaspira, Stephanozyga crassa, Stephanozyga granda, Stephanozyga ignorata, Stephanozyga lisaspira, Stephanozyga magna, Stephanozyga nodosa, Stephanozyga ornamentaria, Stephanozyga seminuda, Stephanozyga subnodosa, Nodozyga longnorensis, Nodozyga rugifera, Nodozyga cylindracea, Nodozyga rowlandsi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Onimarua Quarry, Ofunato City, which is in a Visean carbonate sandstone in the Hikoroichi Formation of Japan

Ecology: epifaunal

Distribution: found only at Onimarua Quarry, Ofunato City

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