Elasmonema rotundum Whidborne 1892 (snail)

Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Elasmonematidae

Full reference: G. F. Whidborne. 1892. A monograph of the Devonian fauna of the south of England. Volume I - Part IV. The fauna of the limestones of Lummaton, Wolborough, Chircombe Bridge, and Chudleigh. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 45:251-335

Belongs to Elasmonema according to G. F. Whidborne 1892

Sister taxa: Elasmonema amabile, Elasmonema bellatula, Elasmonema clarki, Elasmonema corrugata, Elasmonema elegans, Elasmonema filosum, Elasmonema gracilis, Elasmonema hermitei, Elasmonema imitator, Elasmonema improbum, Elasmonema lichas, Elasmonema surgens, Callonema occidentalis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Wolborough Quarry, on the east side of the A381 due east of Wolborough church, which is in a Givetian carbonate limestone in the Torquay Formation of the United Kingdom

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Wolborough Quarry, on the east side of the A381 due east of Wolborough church

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