Portlockiella kentuckyensis Knight 1945 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Portlockiellidae

Full reference: J. B. Knight. 1945. Some new genera of Paleozoic Gastropoda. Journal of Paleontology 19(6):573-587

Belongs to Portlockiella according to J. B. Knight 1945

Sister taxa: Portlockiella blanda, Portlockiella elegans

Type specimen: USNM 11767, a shell. Its type locality is Elizabethtown, which is in a Meramecian carbonate limestone in the Ste. Genevieve Formation of Kentucky.

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Elizabethtown

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