Cheeneetnukia Blodgett and Cook 2002 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Cheeneetnukiidae

Full reference: R. B. Blodgett and A. G. Cook. 2002. Cheeneetnukiidae, a new Middle Devonian murchisonioid gastropod family, including the new genera Cheeneetnukia and Ulungaratoconcha based on representatives from Alaska and Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 48(1):17-28

Parent taxon: Cheeneetnukiidae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005

See also Blodgett and Cook 2002

Sister taxa: Pingtianispira, Ulungaratoconcha

Subtaxa: Cheeneetnukia australis Cheeneetnukia frydai Cheeneetnukia seminodosa Cheeneetnukia spinosa

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Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Devonian of Australia (1 collection), Germany (2), United States (3: Alaska)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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