Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Porcelliidae
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 Porcellia according to E. L. Yochelson and B.W. Saunders 1967
See also Weller 1900, Weller 1901 and Winchell 1863
Sister taxa: Porcellia (Porcellia), Porcellia chesterensis, Porcellia cingulata, Porcellia crassinoda, 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 sciota, Porcellia spinosus, Porcellia striata, Tomoceras gilliana
Type specimen: Its type locality is Prospect Hill, bluff above river south of Burlington, which is in a Famennian marine sandstone in the English River Formation of Iowa
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Prospect Hill, bluff above river south of Burlington
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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