Sinuitina portulacoides Campbell and Engel 1963 (snail)

Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae

Full reference: K. S. W. Campbell and B. A. Engel. 1963. The faunas of the Tournaisian Tulcumba Sandstone and its members in the Werrie and Belvue synclines, New South Wales. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 10(1):55-122

Belongs to Sinuitina according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Campbell and Engel 1963, Yoo 1988 and Yoo 1994

Sister taxa: Sinuitina (Globosinuitina), Sinuitina (Sinuitina), Sinuitina acutilira, Sinuitina brevilineatus, Sinuitina cordiformis, Sinuitina duchastelii, Sinuitina gratiosus, Sinuitina hyalina, Sinuitina matuta, Sinuitina morzadeci, Sinuitina multirugatus, Sinuitina nudidorsa, Sinuitina oldhami, Sinuitina parva, Sinuitina planilata, Sinuitina punjabica, Sinuitina slavinka, Sinuitina spinari

Type specimen: F.7573, a shell. Its type locality is L76, Rangari Section, 6.2 km north, 2.5 km east of Kelvin, which is in a Hastarian carbonate limestone in the Rangari limestone Formation of Australia.

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of Australia (10 collections)

Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence

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