Peruniscus ramseyensis Hicks 1873 (snail)

Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae

Alternative combinations: Bellerophon ramseyensis, Sinuites ramseyensis

Full reference: H. Hicks. 1873. On the Tremadoc rocks in the neighbourhood of St. David's, South Wales and their fossil contents. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 29(1):39-52

Belongs to Peruniscus according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Hicks 1873 and Reed 1921

Sister taxa: Peruniscus cassinensis, Peruniscus macer, Peruniscus pusillus

Type specimen: Its type locality is East Side of Ogof Hên, Ramsey Island, which is in a Moridunian coastal mudstone in the Ogof Hen Formation of the United Kingdom

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at East Side of Ogof Hên, Ramsey Island

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