Trochotoma orbita Pan 1982 (snail)

Gastropoda - Pleurotomarioidea - Trochotomidae

Full reference: H. Z. Pan. 1982. Triassic marine fossil gastropods from SW China. Bulletin of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica 4:153-188

Belongs to Trochotoma according to H. Z. Pan 1982

Sister taxa: Trochotoma (Discotoma), Trochotoma (Trochotoma), Trochotoma (Trochotoma) affinis, Trochotoma clypeus, Trochotoma elegans, Trochotoma maubertense, Trochotoma prisca, Trochotoma striatum, Trochotoma vetusta

Type specimen: Its type locality is Langdai Section ACG727, Liuzhi County, which is in a Smithian marine horizon in the Yongningzhen Formation of China

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at Langdai Section ACG727, Liuzhi County

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