Bucania simulatrix Ulrich and Scofield 1897 (snail)

Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae

Full reference: E. O. Ulrich and W. H. Scofield. 1897. The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota. The Paleontology of Minnesota 39(2):813-1081

Belongs to Bucania according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Ulrich and Scofield 1897 and Wahlman 1992

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 playfairi, Bucania pojetai, Bucania radiata, Bucania reticulata, Bucania robusta, Bucania rugatina, 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 Richmond, Whitewater Fm., which is in a Richmondian marine reef rocks in the Whitewater Formation of Indiana

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution:

• Ordovician of United States (2: Indiana collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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