Bembexia micula Tassell 1982 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae

Full reference: C. B. Tassell. 1982. Gastropods from the Early Devonian "Receptaculites" Limestone, Taemas, New South Wales. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum 77:1-59

Belongs to Bembexia according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Tassell 1982

Sister taxa: Bembexia adjutor, Bembexia babini, Bembexia chapernowni, Bembexia crenatostriata, Bembexia disjuncta, Bembexia gradilispira, Bembexia headillus, Bembexia insolita, Bembexia inumbilicata, Bembexia laevis, Bembexia larteti, Bembexia minima, Bembexia neapolitana, Bembexia seminuda, Bembexia tricinctus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Receptaculites Limestone, Taemas, 20 kilometers southwest of Yass, which is in an Emsian marine limestone in the Taemas Formation of Australia

Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Receptaculites Limestone, Taemas, 20 kilometers southwest of Yass

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