Balbinipleura bohemica Bandel and Frýda 1996 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae

Full reference: K. Bandel and J. Frýda. 1996. Babinipleura, a new slit bearing archaeogastropod (Vetigastopoda) from the Early Devonian of Bohemia and the Early Carboniferous of Belgium. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1996(6):325-344

Belongs to Balbinipleura according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Bandel and Frýda 1996 and Frýda and Blodgett 2004

Sister taxa: Balbinipleura koninckii, Balbinipleura krawczynskii, Balbinipleura sextalineata

Type specimen: Its type locality is Cerveny Lom (= Červený Lom or Red Quarry) near Klukovice, which is in a Pragian shallow subtidal limestone in the Praha Formation of Czechia

Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Cerveny Lom (= Červený Lom or Red Quarry) near Klukovice

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