Porcellia crassinoda White and Whitfield 1862 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Porcelliidae

Full reference: C. A. White and R. P. Whitfield. 1862. Observations upon the rocks of the Mississippian Valley which have been referred to the Chemung Group of New York, together with descriptions of new species from the same horizon at Burlington, Iowa. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 8:289-306

Belongs to Porcellia according to S. Weller 1900

See also White and Whitfield 1862

Sister taxa: Porcellia (Porcellia), Porcellia chesterensis, Porcellia cingulata, Porcellia denayi, Porcellia hertzeri, Porcellia maamouriae, Porcellia magninodosa, Porcellia manitobensis, Porcellia nais, Porcellia neutzeli, Porcellia nodosa, Porcellia obliquinoda, Porcellia prolatatora, Porcellia puzo, Porcellia puzoidea, Porcellia rectinoda, Porcellia sciota, Porcellia spinosus, Porcellia striata, Tomoceras gilliana

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

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

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