Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae

Alternative combination: Pleurotomaria pratteni

Full reference: F. B. Meek and A. H. Worthen. 1860. Description of new Carboniferous fossils from Illinois and other western states. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 12:447-472

Belongs to Gosseletina according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Meek and Worthen 1860 and Meek and Worthen 1866

Sister taxa: Gosseletina aspeniana, Gosseletina australis, Gosseletina callosa, Gosseletina dangchangensis, Gosseletina fuchsi, Gosseletina idahoensis, Gosseletina isomorpha, Gosseletina johnsoni, Gosseletina nodosa, Gosseletina permiana, Gosseletina persimplex, Gosseletina subglobosa, Pleurotomaria (Gosseletina) wanneri

Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Station 429. 6th and Bluff streets, Kansas City (Carboniferous of Missouri)

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