Heideckernema Cook 1998 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae

Full reference: A. G. Cook. 1998. Heideckernema gen. nov. a replacement name for the Devonian turretllid Trinema Cook. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 42(2):438-438

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

See also Cook 1998

Sister taxa: Aulacostrepsis, Australoxa, Clathronema, Cookiloxa, Katoptychia, Loxonema, Nodoloxonema, Omospirinae, Perneratia, Stylonema, Tyrsoecus, Holopella

Subtaxa: Heideckernema heideckeri

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Type: Trinema heideckeri

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at QML 1094, near Little Rocks, 27km NW of Charters Towers (Devonian of Australia)

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