Meekospira delgada Kues and Batten 2001 (snail)

Gastropoda - Caenogastropoda - Meekospiridae

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 Meekospira according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Kues and Batten 2001

Sister taxa: Meekospira acrolopha, Meekospira bambooformis, Meekospira batteni, Meekospira baytuganensis, Meekospira choctawensis, Meekospira evansvillensis, Meekospira knighti, Meekospira ligoni, Meekospira louisvillae, Meekospira mansuyi, Meekospira melanoides, Meekospira mimiae, Meekospira minuta, Meekospira mississippiensis, Meekospira peracuta, Meekospira solenisciforma, Meekospira sulcata, Meekospira symmetrica

Type specimen: UNM 7514. Its type locality is Talpa, which is in a Desmoinesian delta front shale/sandstone in the Flechado Formation of New Mexico.

Ecology: epifaunal

Distribution: found only at Talpa

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