Gyronema altispiralis Grabau 1922 (snail)

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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