Kinkaidia cancellata Thein and Nitecki 1974 (snail)

Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Microdomatidae

Full reference: M.L. Thein and M.H. Nitecki. 1974. Chesterian (Upper Mississippian) Gastropoda of the Illinois basin. Fieldiana: Geology, New Series 34:1-238

Belongs to Kinkaidia according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Thein and Nitecki 1974

Sister taxa: Kinkaidia triserrata, Kinkaidia uniserrata

Type specimen: FMNH UC 30910, a shell. Its type locality is Locality 27. East side of Sugar Creek and west of Sells Hollow, which is in a Chesterian carbonate limestone in the Kinkaid Formation of Kentucky.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Locality 27. East side of Sugar Creek and west of Sells Hollow

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