Cheeneetnukia australis Blodgett and Cook 2002 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Cheeneetnukiidae

Full reference: R. B. Blodgett and A. G. Cook. 2002. Cheeneetnukiidae, a new Middle Devonian murchisonioid gastropod family, including the new genera Cheeneetnukia and Ulungaratoconcha based on representatives from Alaska and Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 48(1):17-28

Belongs to Cheeneetnukia according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Blodgett and Cook 2002

Sister taxa: Cheeneetnukia frydai, Cheeneetnukia seminodosa, Cheeneetnukia spinosa

Type specimen: QMF33100, a shell. Its type locality is QML 1019, ridge of silicrete 100 meters north of road 500m East of Storm Dam 190, which is in a Givetian carbonate limestone in the Dosey Limestone Formation of Australia.

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at QML 1019, ridge of silicrete 100 meters north of road 500m East of Storm Dam 190

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