Zygopleura simplex Wanner 1922 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Zygopleuridae

Full reference: C. Wanner. 1922. Die Gastropoden und Lamellibranchiaten der Dyas von Timor. Palaontologie von Timor 11:1-82

Belongs to Zygopleura according to C. Wanner 1922

See also Charlton et al. 2002

Sister taxa: Zygopleura (Allostrophia), Zygopleura (Xizangospira), Zygopleura angulata, Zygopleura arctecostata, Zygopleura benoisti, Zygopleura brevis, Zygopleura cylindrica, Zygopleura dubia, Zygopleura dubia, Zygopleura etalensis, Zygopleura geniculata, Zygopleura goldbergi, Zygopleura granietzensis, Zygopleura haasi, Zygopleura hybrida, Zygopleura nitida, Zygopleura numidis, Zygopleura porulosa, Zygopleura roessleri, Zygopleura spiralina, Zygopleura swalloviana, Zygopleura tunisiensis, Zygopleura verrucosa, Zygopleura walmstedti, Zygopleura yunnanensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Bitauni, Timor (Molengraaf and Wanner coll), which is in an Artinskian/Kungurian marine horizon in the Atahoc Formation of Indonesia

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Bitauni, Timor (Molengraaf and Wanner coll)

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