Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae

Full reference: M. Murata. 1971. Fusulinid Biostratigraphy and Molluscan Fauna frorn the Uppermost part of the Sakamotozawa Formation, and the Pre-Kanokura Unconformity, in the southern part of the Kitakami Massif. Northeast Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan, New Series 82:93-116

Belongs to Bellerophon (Bellerophon) according to M. Murata 1971

Sister taxa: Bellerophon (Bellerophon) blanfordianus, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) complanatus, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) cristatus, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) equivicalus, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) hilli, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) huecoensis, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) kingorum, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) lamellosus, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) majusculus, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) mongoliensis, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) needlensis, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) orientalis, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) oteroensis, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) panneus, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) parvicristus, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) planodorsatum, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) stevensianus, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) vinculatus, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) welshi, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) yochelsoni

Type specimen: IGPS 91389, a shell. Its type locality is Motoiwazawa Valley, southwest of Kawaguchi, Sumita-cho, Kesen-gun, which is in an Artinskian carbonate sandstone/limestone in the Sakamotozawa Formation of Japan.

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Motoiwazawa Valley, southwest of Kawaguchi, Sumita-cho, Kesen-gun

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