Harpodactylus marolti Kollmann 2009 (snail)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae

Full reference: H. A. Kollmann. 2009. A Late Cretaceous Aporrhaidae-dominated gastropod assemblage from the Gosau Group of the Pletzach Alm near Kramsach (Tyrol, Austria). With an appendix on the taxonomy of Mesozoic Aporrhaidae and their position in the superfamily Stromboidea. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie A für Mineralogie und Petrographie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Anthropologie und Prähistorie 111(A):33-71

Belongs to Harpodactylus according to H. A. Kollmann 2009

Sister taxa: Harpodactylus ovata, Harpodactylus pinnipenna

Type specimen: NHMW 2008z0015/0001, a shell. Its type locality is Pletzach Alm close to Kramsach, Tyrol, which is in a Santonian marine horizon in Austria.

Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Pletzach Alm close to Kramsach, Tyrol

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