Farewellia heidelbergerae Frýda and Blodgett 2004 (snail)

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

Belongs to Farewellia according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Frýda and Blodgett 2004

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: ČGU JF 794, a shell. 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: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

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

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