Compsonema fragile Gordon and Yochelson 1983 (snail)

Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae

Full reference: M., J.r. Gordon and E. L. Yochelson. 1983. A gastropod fauna from the Cravenoceras hesperium ammonoid zone (Upper Mississippian) in east-central Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 57(5):971-991

Belongs to Compsonema according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Gordon and Yochelson 1983

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is USGS 25568-PC, which is in a Pendleian shallow subtidal limestone in the Diamond Peak Formation of Nevada

Ecology: passively mobile epifaunal coprophage

Distribution: found only at USGS 25568-PC

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