Porcellia obliquinoda White 1862 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Porcelliidae

Full reference: C. A. White. 1862. Description of new species of fossils from the Devonian and Carboniferous rocks of the Mississippi Valley. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 9:8-33

Belongs to Porcellia according to E. L. Yochelson and B.W. Saunders 1967

See also Weller 1900, Weller 1905 and White 1862

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 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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