Luciellina ocultabanda Kues and Batten 2001 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae

Alternative combinations: Eirlysella ocultabanda, Luciellina occultabanda

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 Luciellina according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Karapunar and Nützel 2022 and Kues and Batten 2001

Sister taxa: Luciellina contracta, Luciellina helicinoides, Luciellina micra, Luciellina obsoleta, Luciellina poolvashensis, Luciellina squamula, Luciellina striatissima

Type specimen: UNM 7007, a shell. 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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