Bucaniopsis calamitoides Yin 1932 (snail)

Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae

== Bellerophon calamitoides Grabau 1922 p. 115

Full reference: T. H. Yin. 1932. Gastropoda of the Penchi and Taiyuan Series of North China. Palaeontologica Sinica, Series B 11(2):1-53

Belongs to Bucaniopsis according to T. H. Yin 1932

See also Licharew 1968 and Wagner 2023

Sister taxa: Bucaniopsis forbesi, Bucanopsis carinifera, Bucanopsis comata, Bucanopsis diabloensis, Bucanopsis gemma, Bucanopsis latevittatus, Bucanopsis lirata, Bucanopsis nicoli, Bucanopsis qinglongensis, Bucanopsis trisinuata, Bucanopsis volgulica

Type specimen: Its type locality is Locality 50. Paloukou, Paotehsien, which is in a Gzhelian carbonate shale in the Taiyuan Formation of China.

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Locality 50. Paloukou, Paotehsien

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