Yochelsonospira gairensis Thomas 1940 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae

Alternative combination: Worthenia gairensis

Full reference: E. G. Thomas. 1940. Revision of the Scottish Carboniferous Pleurotomariidae. Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow 20:30-72

Belongs to Yochelsonospira according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Thomas 1940

Sister taxa: Worthenia (Yochelsonospira) kuesi, Yochelsonospira mississippiensis, Yochelsonospira monensis, Yochelsonospira nauvooensis, Yochelsonospira northviewensis, Yochelsonospira tenuilineata, Yochelsonospira thomasi

Type specimen: RSM 1939.3.2, a shell. Its type locality is Gair, near Carluke, which is in an Arnsbergian carbonate limestone/mudstone in the Upper Limestone Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Gair, near Carluke

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