Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Full reference: T. Kobayashi. 1955. The Ordovician fossils from the McKay group in British Columbia, western Canada, with a note on the early Ordovician palaeogeography. Journal of the Faculty of Science, the Imperial University of Tokyo, Section 2 9(3):355-492
Belongs to Eobucania according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Horný 1997, Knight et al. 1960, Kobayashi 1955 and Yochelson 1968
Sister taxa: Eobucania bohemica, Eobucania mexicana, Eobucania palinurus, Eobucania subovatus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Kobayashi 19. 8173. Goodsir No. 57/4. North end, Steamboat Mountain, east slope, which is in a Gasconadian carbonate limestone in the Survey Peak Formation of Canada.
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Ordovician of Canada (2: Alberta, British Columbia collections)
• Skullrockian of Canada (1: British Columbia)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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