Zygopleura yunnanensis Pan 1977 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Zygopleuridae

Full reference: H. Z. Pan. 1977. Mesozoic and Cenozoic fossil Gastropoda from Yunnan. Mesozoic Fossils from Yunnan 2:83-152

Belongs to Zygopleura according to H. Z. Pan 1977

Sister taxa: Zygopleura (Allostrophia), Zygopleura (Xizangospira), Zygopleura angulata, Zygopleura arctecostata, Zygopleura benoisti, Zygopleura brevis, Zygopleura cylindrica, Zygopleura dubia, Zygopleura dubia, Zygopleura etalensis, Zygopleura geniculata, Zygopleura goldbergi, Zygopleura granietzensis, Zygopleura haasi, Zygopleura hybrida, Zygopleura nitida, Zygopleura numidis, Zygopleura porulosa, Zygopleura roessleri, Zygopleura simplex, Zygopleura spiralina, Zygopleura swalloviana, Zygopleura tunisiensis, Zygopleura verrucosa, Zygopleura walmstedti

Type specimen: Its type locality is YHS458, Heping township, Jinggu County, which is in a Carnian marine horizon in the Weiyuanjiang Formation of China

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at YHS458, Heping township, Jinggu County

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