Gastropoda - Trochoidea - Ataphridae
Diagnosis. Shell lens-shaped with two keels forming periphery; keels separated by a concave area; subsutural spiral rib; narrow ramp between spiral rib and adapical suture; indistinct axial ribs between subsutural spiral rib and adapical keel; base with narrow umbilicus and radial ribs that are con&64257;ned to the centre of the base; apertural edge with triangular broadening at the transition from the columella to the basal apertural edge.
Full reference: J. Gründel, A. Kaim, A. Nützel and C. T. S. Little. 2011. Early Jurassic Gastropods from England. Palaeontology 54(3):481-510
Belongs to Lensataphrus according to J. Gründel et al. 2011
Sister taxon: Lensataphrus tenuis
Type specimen: MG 1396 . Its type locality is Coast near Redcar, Cleveland, UK, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian marine horizon in the Redcar Mudstone Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution: found only at Coast near Redcar, Cleveland, UK
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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