Gastropoda - Cerithimorpha - Orthonemidae
Alternative combination: Pseudozygopleura (Leptozyga) minuta
Full reference: J. B. Knight. 1930. The gastropods of the St. Louis, Missouri, Pennsylvanian outlier: the Pseudozygopleurinae. Journal of Paleontology Memoir 4(1):1-88
Belongs to Leptozyga according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Blodgett et al. 1999, Hoare and Sturgeon 1978, Hoare and Sturgeon 1981, Knight 1930 and Knight et al. 1960
Sister taxa: Leptozyga costata, Leptozyga venustus
Type specimen: YPM 12991, a shell. 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:
• Carboniferous of United States (3: Missouri, Ohio collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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