Alaskiella medfraensis Frýda and Blodgett 1998 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Porcelliidae

Full reference: J. Frýda and R. B. Blodgett. 1998. Two new cirroidean genera (Vetigastropoda, Archaeogastropoda) from the Emsian (late Early Devonian) of Alaska with notes on the Early Phylogeny of Cirroidea. Journal of Paleontology 72(2):265-273

Belongs to Alaskiella according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Frýda 1999, Frýda and Blodgett 1998, Frýda and Blodgett 2001 and Frýda and Blodgett 2004

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is 83RB9, south flank of Limestone Mountain, which is in an Emsian carbonate limestone in the Limestone Mountain Formation of Alaska

Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at 83RB9, south flank of Limestone Mountain

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