Bucania playfairi Reed 1921 (snail)

Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae

Full reference: F. R. C. Reed. 1921. A monograph of the British Ordovician and Silurian Bellerophontacea. The Palaeontographical Society 31:1-92

Belongs to Bucania according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Reed 1921

Sister taxa: Bucania aotii, Bucania batchtownensis, Bucania bellapuncta, Bucania champlainensis, Bucania cornu, Bucania czekanowskii, Bucania dorsoplana, Bucania draboviensis, Bucania elliptica, Bucania erratica, Bucania gracillima, Bucania groenlandica, Bucania halli, Bucania minganensis, Bucania mudanensis, Bucania oelandica, Bucania peracuta, Bucania pilula, Bucania pojetai, Bucania radiata, Bucania reticulata, Bucania robusta, Bucania rugatina, Bucania simulatrix, Bucania squamosus, Bucania stephnae, Bucania stigmosa, Bucania subangulata, Bucania sublata, Bucania suhaensis, Bucania sulcatina, Bucania tsuibonensis, Bucania ungava, Bucania witryana

Type specimen: Its type locality is Locality 4. Shalloch Mill, Whitehouse Bay, Girvan, which is in a Pusgillian carbonate limestone in the Mill Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Locality 4. Shalloch Mill, Whitehouse Bay, Girvan

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