Cataschisma typica Branson 1909 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae

Full reference: E.B. Branson. 1909. The fauna of the residuary Auburn chert of Lincoln County, Missouri. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 18(4):39-52

Belongs to Cataschisma according to D. M. Rohr et al. 2004

Sister taxa: Cataschisma convexa, Cataschisma convexum, Cataschisma exquisita, Cataschisma latiangularis, Cataschisma microsoma, Cataschisma nitida, Cataschisma pillula, Cataschisma typa, Cataschisma ulrichi, Cataschisma winkleri, Globispira acuta

Type specimen: Walker Museum UC 11535, a shell. Its type locality is Residuary Auburn Chert Beds, east of Auburn , which is in a Turinian carbonate claystone in the Decorah Formation of Missouri.

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at 96R-3, Table Point

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