Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae

Alternative combination: Pleurotoma blumi

Full reference: H. L. Wissmann. 1841. Taxonomic names, in Beiträge zur Geognosie und Petrefacten-Kunde des südöstlichen Tirols vorzüglich der Schichten von St. Cassian. Beiträge zur Petrefacten-Kunde 4:1-152

Belongs to Cheilotoma according to E. Koken 1889

See also Bandel 2006, Kittl 1891, Nützel and Kaim 2014, Nützel and Karapunar 2023, Strand 1928 and Wissmann 1841

Sister taxa: Murchisonia (Cheilotoma) acuta, Murchisonia (Cheilotoma) bipunctata, Murchisonia (Cheilotoma) calosoma, Murchisonia (Cheilotoma) hungarica, Murchisonia (Cheilotoma) obtusa, Murchisonia (Cheilotoma) subgranulata, Murchisonia (Cheilotoma) tristriata

Type specimen: Its type locality is St. Cassian (Munster coll), which is in a Julian carbonate limestone in the Cassian Formation of Italy.

Ecology: epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at St. Cassian (Munster coll)

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