Bernicia praecursor Cox 1927 (pulmonate)

Gastropoda - Pulmonata

Full reference: L. R. Cox. 1927. Bernicia praecursor gen. & sp. nov., a Lower Carboniferous Freshwater Gastropod. Geological Magazine 64(7):326-328

Belongs to Bernicia according to J. B. Knight 1941

See also Cox 1927

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Geological Survey Museum, London, England, No. 38387, a shell. Its type locality is Boring at the Greenwich Hospital Estate, Scremerston, which is in a Brigantian lacustrine limestone in the Scremerston Coal Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: epifaunal

Distribution: found only at Boring at the Greenwich Hospital Estate, Scremerston

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