Bellazona polita Gordon and Yochelson 1987 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae

Full reference: M. Gordon and E. L. Yochelson. 1987. Late Mississippian gastropods of the Chainman Shale, West-Central Utah. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1368:1-112

Belongs to Bellazona according to M. Gordon and E. L. Yochelson 1987

Sister taxa: Bellazona acuta, Bellazona bella

Type specimen: Its type locality is USGS 17012-PC500' north of Granite Mountain measured section, which is in a Chesterian marine shale/claystone in the Chainman Shale Formation of Utah.

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of United States (2: Utah collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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