Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Plethospiridae
Full reference: D. M. Rohr and R. B. Blodgett. 2001. Kirkospira, a new Silurian gastropod from Glacier Bay, southeastern Alaska. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1678:117-120
Belongs to Kirkospira according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Rohr and Blodgett 2001
Sister taxa: Kirkospira lindstroemi, Kirkospira tongassensis, Kirkospira vitellia
Type specimen: Its type locality is Kirk locality 993, which is in a Gorstian/Ludfordian carbonate limestone in the Willoughby Limestone Formation of Alaska
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Silurian of United States (3: Alaska collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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