Dorispira burlingi Resser 1939 (mollusk)

Helcionelloida - Helcionellida - Rugaeconidae

Alternative combinations: Helcionella burlingi, Latouchella burlingi

Full reference: C. E. Resser. 1939. The Ptarmigania strata of the northwestern Wasatch Mountains. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 98(24):1-72

Belongs to Dorispira according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Geyer 1994, Parkhaev and Demidenko 2010, Peel 1988 and Resser 1939

Sister taxa: Dorispira aliciae, Dorispira aperta, Dorispira arguta, Dorispira comma, Dorispira holmdalense, Dorispira lauta, Dorispira merino, Dorispira pearylandica, Dorispira penecyrano, Dorispira pocatelloensis, Dorispira terraustralis

Type specimen: Its type locality is 59f - Mill Creek (=Liberty Creek), west of Liberty, Bear River Range, which is in a Menevian carbonate limestone in the Langston Formation of Idaho

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at 59f - Mill Creek (=Liberty Creek), west of Liberty, Bear River Range

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