Polygyrina venusta Yu and Wang 1980 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Zygopleuridae

Full reference: W. Z. Yu and H. Wang. 1980. Taxonomic names, in Late Permian to Early Triassic gastropods from Western Guizhou Province. Stratigraphy and Palaeontology of Upper Permian Coal-bearing Formation in Western Guizhou and Eastern Yunnan 195-240

Belongs to Polygyrina according to W. Z. Yu and H. Wang 1980

Sister taxa: Loxonema (Polygyrina) lommeli, Polygyrina depressa, Polygyrina lommeli, Polygyrina peracuta, Polygyrina sichuanensis, Polygyrina sichuanensis, Polygyrina subtilostriata, Polygyrina zhongzhaiensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Laowuji Section PL27-34, Panxian County, which is in a Griesbachian coastal siliciclastic in the Kayitou Formation of China

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Laowuji Section PL27-34, Panxian County

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