Euconospira missouriensis Swallow 1860 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae

Alternative combinations: Pleurotomaria missouriensis, Trochus missouriensis

Full reference: G. C. Swallow. 1860. Descriptions of some new fossils from the Carboniferous and Devonian rocks of Missouri. Transactions of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences 1:635-660

Belongs to Euconospira according to E. O. Ulrich and W. H. Scofield 1897

See also Greger 1917, Keyes 1894, Morgan 1924, Sayre 1930 and Swallow 1860

Sister taxa: Euconispira bicarinata, Euconospira conica, Euconospira conimorpha, Euconospira conula, Euconospira cryptolirata, Euconospira desereti, Euconospira disjuncta, Euconospira elegantula, Euconospira elongata, Euconospira equisita, Euconospira halliana, Euconospira hermosana, Euconospira neptuni, Euconospira nipponica, Euconospira nodosa, Euconospira obsoleta, Euconospira perlimbata, Euconospira planoconvexa, Euconospira skuini, Euconospira spiroperforata, Euconospira striatula, Euconospira sturgeoni, Euconospira trochiformis, Euconospira turbiniformis, Euconospira varizona, Euconospira waterlooensis

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at National Canyon, USGS 25127-PC (Carboniferous of Arizona)

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.