Gastropoda - Caenogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Synonym: Knightia Longstaff 1933 [replaced name]
Full reference: J. D. Longstaff. 1933. Note on a Carboniferous Genus. Geological Magazine 70(10):480-480
Parent taxon: Orthonemidae according to A. Nützel and K. Bandel 2000
See also Knight 1941, Knight et al. 1960, Longstaff 1933, Longstaff 1933 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Carinanema, Cibecuia, Donaldospira, Heshanietta, Hypergonia, Leptozyga, Microlampra, Ohiopupa, Palaeostylus
Subtaxa: Knightella baluki Knightella gundyensis Knightella hydrobiformis Knightella irregularis Knightella regularis Knightella shumardiana
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Australia (3 collections)
• Cretaceous of Poland (1)
• Jurassic of Poland (1)
• Permian of China (1), Japan (1), Thailand (1)
• Carboniferous of Australia (1), Morocco (1), the United Kingdom (2)
• Devonian of United States (1: Iowa)
Total: 13 collections including 14 occurrences
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