Ceraunocochlis blatta Knight 1931 (snail)

Gastropoda - Caenogastropoda - Meekospiridae

Full reference: J. B. Knight. 1931. The gastropods of the St. Louis, Missouri, Pennsylvanian outlier: the Subulitidae. Journal of Paleontology 5(3):177-229

Belongs to Ceraunocochlis according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Hoare et al. 1997 and Knight 1931

Sister taxa: Ceraunocochlis australis, Ceraunocochlis deformis, Ceraunocochlis elongata, Ceraunocochlis fulminula, Ceraunocochlis gracilis, Ceraunocochlis kidderi, Ceraunocochlis polyphemoides, Ceraunocochlis subulata, Ceraunocochlis tenuis, Ceraunocochlis trekensis

Type specimen: YPM 13164, a shell. Its type locality is SL-1. Headwaters of Feefee Creek, north of Olive St. & west of Lindberg Blvd., 1.5 km northwest of Stratmann (Olivette), which is in a Moscovian offshore shale in the Appanoose Formation of Missouri.

Ecology: epifaunal

Distribution: found only at SL-1. Headwaters of Feefee Creek, north of Olive St. & west of Lindberg Blvd., 1.5 km northwest of Stratmann (Olivette)

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