Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae

Full reference: J. Frýda and R. B. Blodgett. 2004. New Emsian (Late Early Devonian) gastropods from Limestone Mountain, Medfra B-4 Quadrangle, west-central Alaska (Farewell Terrane) and their paleobiogeographic affinities and evolutionary significance. Journal of Paleontology 78(1):111-132

Parent taxon: Murchisoniidae according to R. B. Blodgett and J. Frýda 1999

See also Frýda and Blodgett 2004

Sister taxa: Anarconcha, Barroisocaulus, Bellazona, Biangularia, Brilonella, Cyrtostropha, Devonocerithioides, Domiporta, Eohormotomina, Glyphodeta, Helicospira, Kaseiella, Leptorima, Lodanaria, Mesocoelia, Michelia, Micheliopsis, Micrentoma, Morania, Murchisonia, Parahormotomina, Predazzella, Protospira, Pseudoaclisina, Vladanella, Wuxuanella

Subtaxa: Farewellia heidelbergerae

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Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at 83RB9, south flank of Limestone Mountain (Devonian of Alaska)

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