Laxispira trochleata Böhm 1891 (turret shell)

Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae

Full reference: J. Böhm. 1891. Die Kreidebildungen des Fürbergs und Sulzbergs bei Siegsdorf in Oberbayern. Palaeontographica 38:1-106

Belongs to Laxispira according to J. Böhm 1891

Sister taxa: Laxispira lumbricalis, Laxispira monilifera

Type specimen: Its type locality is Gerhardtsreiter Graben, which is in a Maastrichtian carbonate marl in the Gerhardsreit Formation of Germany

Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Gerhardtsreiter Graben

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