Zygopleura walmstedti Klipstein 1843 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Zygopleuridae

Alternative combinations: Loxonema walmstedti, Turritella walmstedtii, Zygopleura walmstadti

Full reference: A. Klipstein. 1843. Beschreibung neuer Versteinerungen von St. Cassian und einiger anderer Localitäten, Erster Abschnitt. Mollusken. Beiträge zur Geologischen Kenntniss der Östlichen Alpen 101-207

Belongs to Zygopleura according to H.-F. Yin and E. L. Yochelson 1983

See also Kittl 1894, Klipstein 1843 and Pan 1977

Sister taxa: Zygopleura (Allostrophia), Zygopleura (Xizangospira), Zygopleura angulata, Zygopleura arctecostata, Zygopleura benoisti, Zygopleura brevis, Zygopleura cylindrica, Zygopleura dubia, Zygopleura dubia, Zygopleura etalensis, Zygopleura geniculata, Zygopleura goldbergi, Zygopleura granietzensis, Zygopleura haasi, Zygopleura hybrida, Zygopleura nitida, Zygopleura numidis, Zygopleura porulosa, Zygopleura roessleri, Zygopleura simplex, Zygopleura spiralina, Zygopleura swalloviana, Zygopleura tunisiensis, Zygopleura verrucosa, Zygopleura yunnanensis

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of China (7 collections), Italy (5)

Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence

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