Gamizyga nitida Hoare and Sturgeon 1980

Gastropoda - Zygopleuroidea - Pseudozygopleuridae

Alternative combination: Gamizyga (Gamizyga) nitida

Full reference: R. D. Hoare and M. T. Sturgeon. 1980. The Pennsylvanian pseudozygopleurid gastropod genus Gamizyga n. gen. from Ohio and West Virginia. Journal of Paleontology 54(1):159-187

Belongs to Gamizyga according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Hoare and Sturgeon 1980

Sister taxa: Gamizyga (Gamizyga), Gamizyga corpulentissima, Gamizyga expansa, Gamizyga girtyi, Gamizyga morningstarae

Type specimen: 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.

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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