Scalitina Spriesterbach 1919 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae

Synonym: Ampulloscalites Wenz 1938

Full reference: J. Spriesterbach. 1919. Neue Vesteineinenngen aus dem Lemmeschifer. Jahrbuch der Königlich Preufsischen geologischen Landesanstalt zu Berlin 38(1):434-512

Parent taxon: Soleniscidae according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Knight et al. 1960 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Alaskacirrus, Bensbergia, Bulimorpha, Decorochilina, Havlicekiela, Ianthinopsis, Ischnoptygminae, Labridens, Leptoptygma, Macrocheilus permicus, Macrochilininae, Nanochilina, Palaeocarboninia, Procerithiopsis, Prokopiconchinae, Soleniscinae, Soleniscus

Subtaxa: Scalitina montana

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Type: Scalitina montana

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Schaffeld im Dhünntal, east of Burscheid (Devonian of Germany)

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