Zygopleura spiralina Dietz 1911 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Zygopleuridae

Full reference: E. Dietz. 1911. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der deutschen Zechsteinschnecken. Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen geologischen Landesanstalt zu Berlin 30:444-506

Belongs to Zygopleura according to E. Dietz 1911

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is Pößneck (Dresden collection), which is in a Wuchiapingian carbonate carbonate in the Zechstein Formation of Germany

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Pößneck (Dresden collection)

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