Gastropoda - Cerithimorpha - Orthonemidae

Alternative combinations: Holopea shumardana, Holopea shumardiana, Loxonema shumardana, Murchisonia shumardiana

Full reference: A. Winchell. 1863. Descriptions of fossils from the yellow sandstones lying beneath the “Burlington limestone” at Burlington, Iowa. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 7:2-25

Belongs to Knightella according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Girty 1915, Weller 1900, Winchell 1863 and Yochelson and Saunders 1967

Sister taxa: Knightella baluki, Knightella gundyensis, Knightella hydrobiformis, Knightella irregularis, Knightella regularis

Ecology: epifaunal

Distribution: found only at Prospect Hill, bluff above river south of Burlington (Devonian of Iowa)

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