Spirostylus contractus Kittl 1894 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Spirostylidae

Full reference: E. Kittl. 1894. Die Gastropoden der Schichten von St. Cassian der südalpinen Trias. III. Theil. Annalen des Kaiserlich-Königlischen Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums 9:143-277

Belongs to Spirostylus according to E. Kittl 1894

Sister taxa: Spirostylus acus, Spirostylus acutestriatus, Spirostylus agilis, Spirostylus beneckei, Spirostylus brevior, Spirostylus columnaris, Spirostylus linctus, Spirostylus longobardicus, Spirostylus porrectus, Spirostylus retroscalatus, Spirostylus subcolumnaris, Spirostylus subcontractus, Spirostylus terebra

Type specimen: NHMW 1899/VI/97. Its type locality is Seelandalpe (Wiener Hofsmuseums coll), which is in a Julian carbonate limestone in the Cassian Formation of Italy.

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Seelandalpe (Wiener Hofsmuseums coll)

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