Cymbularia merita Reed 1921 (snail)

Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae

Full reference: F. R. C. Reed. 1921. A monograph of the British Ordovician and Silurian Bellerophontacea. The Palaeontographical Society 31:1-92

Belongs to Cymbularia according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Reed 1921

Sister taxa: Bellerophon carinatus, Cymbularia aequalis, Cymbularia alatus, Cymbularia angusta, Cymbularia bullatus, Cymbularia compressa, Cymbularia cultrijugata, Cymbularia decipens, Cymbularia decorata, Cymbularia drummuckensis, Cymbularia galeata, Cymbularia impressa, Cymbularia janica, Cymbularia klouceki, Cymbularia lenticularis, Cymbularia nuciformis, Cymbularia nummulina, Cymbularia pygmaea, Cymbularia roemeri, Cymbularia sculptus, Cymbularia stricta, Cymbularia turnbulli, Cymbularia woodlandensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Proetus concinnus-Warburgella stokesii Assemblage, Much Wenlock Limestone, which is in a Homerian marine grainstone/lime mudstone in the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation of the United Kingdom

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Proetus concinnus-Warburgella stokesii Assemblage, Much Wenlock Limestone

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