Australonema melbournensis Tassell 1980 (snail)

Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Oriostomatidae

Full reference: C. B. Tassell. 1980. Further gastropods from the Early Devonian Lilydale Limestone. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum 69:3-27

Belongs to Australonema according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Frýda and Bandel 1997, Frýda and Manda 1997 and Tassell 1980

Sister taxa: Australonema acuta, Australonema australis, Australonema blodgetti, Australonema chico, Australonema guillieri, Australonema havliceki, Australonema immersum, Australonema iniquilineatum, Australonema lilydalensis, Australonema parva, Australonema persimile, Australonema simpsoni, Australonema varvarae, Australonema wellingtonensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Cave Hill Quarries, Lilydale, which is in a Pragian reef, buildup or bioherm limestone in the Lilydale Limestone Formation of Australia

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Cave Hill Quarries, Lilydale

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