Baylea kuesi Batten 1995 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae

Full reference: R. L. Batten. 1995. Pennsylvanina (Morrowan) gastropods from the Magdalena Formation of the Hueco Mountains, Texas. American Museum Novitates 3122:1-46

Belongs to Baylea according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Batten 1995 and Kues and Batten 2001

Sister taxa: Baylea arenaria, Baylea burtasorum, Baylea chimbulatiensis, Baylea coheni, Baylea concentrica, Baylea cordulae, Baylea dejactinensis, Baylea delawarensis, Baylea denjatinensis, Baylea derongensis, Baylea durga, Baylea foraminata, Baylea giffordi, Baylea grandicarinata, Baylea gurleyi, Baylea heterocarinata, Baylea huecoensis, Baylea inclinata, Baylea knighti, Baylea kyschertianaeformis, Baylea loatienensis, Baylea longispira, Baylea minuta, Baylea parva, Baylea perthensis, Baylea praeburtasorum, Baylea queerlingensis, Baylea rigida, Baylea salomonensis, Baylea shilovskyi, Baylea sinuatus, Baylea spirolirata, Baylea subconstricta, Baylea supercrenata, Baylea tabulata, Baylea teicherti, Baylea tenera, Baylea trifibra, Baylea turbinata, Baylea umbilicata, Baylea verneuili, Baylea vjatkensis, Baylea weiningensis, Baylea yabeshigerui, Baylea yvanii

Type specimen: AMNH 44908, a shell. Its type locality is AMNH locality 2015, Powwow Canyon, which is in a Morrowan offshore shelf limestone in the Magdalena Limestone Formation of Texas.

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at AMNH locality 2015, Powwow Canyon

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