†Gyronema altispiralis Grabau 1922 (snail)
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Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Full reference: A. W. Grabau. 1922. Ordovician fossils of north China. Palaeontologia Sinica Ser. B 1(1):1-98
Belongs to Gyronema according to A. W. Grabau 1922
See also Grabau 1931, Knight et al. 1960 and Yin 1932
Sister taxa: Gyronema pulchellum, Gyronema rotalineum, Gyronema semicarinatum
Type specimen: Its type locality is Locality 50. Paloukou, Paotehsien, which is in a Gzhelian carbonate shale in the Taiyuan Formation of China.
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Locality 50. Paloukou, Paotehsien
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