Worthenia legrandi Kues and Batten 2001 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Phymatopleuridae

Full reference: B. S. Kues and R. L. Batten. 2001. Middle Pennsylvanian gastropods from the Flechado Formation, north-central New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 75(1, supp):1-95

Belongs to Worthenia according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Kues and Batten 2001

Sister taxa: Pleurotomaria (Worthenia) constantini, Worthenia (Humiliworthenia), Worthenia (Worthenia), Worthenia alticarinata, Worthenia angulata, Worthenia basifalcata, Worthenia bialveozona, Worthenia bicarinata, Worthenia bieberi, Worthenia bilineata, Worthenia cainallensis, Worthenia castlemanensis, Worthenia cirriformis, Worthenia constantini, Worthenia contabulata, Worthenia corrugata, Worthenia crenilunula, Worthenia crenulata, Worthenia curvistriata, Worthenia dharmaensis, Worthenia dieneri, Worthenia distincta, Worthenia dregeri, Worthenia duplicata, Worthenia dyadica, Worthenia eremita, Worthenia escheri, Worthenia extendia, Worthenia furcata, Worthenia gepidorum, Worthenia gubleri, Worthenia hoettingensis, Worthenia humiligrada, Worthenia humilis, Worthenia indifferens, Worthenia kingi, Worthenia klamathensis, Worthenia latialveozona, Worthenia liebeneri, Worthenia loczyi, Worthenia margaritacea, Worthenia morovi, Worthenia multicarinata, Worthenia nana, Worthenia pagoda, Worthenia parvula, Worthenia pilula, Worthenia planalveozona, Worthenia plutonis, Worthenia praerupta, Worthenia punctata, Worthenia rhombifera, Worthenia schirjaevensis, Worthenia sculpta, Worthenia sigaretoides, Worthenia speciosa, Worthenia strigata, Worthenia strigillata, Worthenia subplicata, Worthenia substriata, Worthenia subtilis, Worthenia superstes, Worthenia tabulata, Worthenia tongxinensis, Worthenia triton, Worthenia vamosensis, Worthenia whitehorsensis, Worthenia windowblindensis

Type specimen: UNM 7265. Its type locality is Talpa, which is in a Desmoinesian delta front shale/sandstone in the Flechado Formation of New Mexico.

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Talpa

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