Macrochilina cyclostoma Whidborne 1891 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae

Full reference: G. F. Whidborne. 1891. A monograph of the Devonian fauna of the south of England. Volume I - Part III. The fauna of the limestones of Lummaton, Wolborough, Chircombe Bridge, and Chudleigh. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 44:155-250

Belongs to Macrochilina according to G. F. Whidborne 1891

Sister taxa: Strobeus alternatus, Strobeus bashkiriensis, Strobeus batteni, Strobeus brancoi, Strobeus brevis, Strobeus delawarensis, Strobeus dongluoensis, Strobeus ferganense, Strobeus gouldiana, Strobeus immanis, Strobeus intercalaris, Strobeus keyesi, Strobeus mucronatus, Strobeus nobilis, Strobeus ovalis, Strobeus pakistanensis, Strobeus paludinaeformis, Strobeus poromus, Strobeus rectilinea, Strobeus rozeni, Strobeus shigetai, Strobeus stinesvillensis, Strobeus subglobosus, Strobeus tantilla, Strobeus veberi, Strobeus ventricosus, Strobeus welleri, Macrochilina subtilis, Macrochilina subimbricata, Macrochilina neritoides, Macrochilina sandbergeri, Macrochilina intermedia, Macrochilina acuta, Macrochilina nitens, Macrochilina meridionalis, Macrochilina winensis, Macrochilina ejecta, Macrochilina turrita, Macrochilina whidborni, Macrochilina hospitalis, Macrochilina turbinea, Macrochilina seneca, Macrochilina elevata, Macrochilina lincta, Macrochilina sublineata, Macrochilina dunkeri, Macrochilina inaequistriata, Macrochilina brevispira, Macrochilina ovata, Macrochilina germanica, Macrochilina piltonensis, Soleniscus (Macrochilina) humilis, Macrochilina decheni, Macrochilina pulchella, Macrochilina modesta, Macrochilina ovatum, Macrochilina rectinea, Macrochilina orbignyi, Macrochilina conicus, Macrochilina subovata, Macrochilina naticaeformis, Macrochilina chattolina, Macrochilina pusilla, Macrochilina imbricata, Macrochilina pygmaea, Macrochilina buccinoides, Macrocheilus pulchella, Macrocheilus depilis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Lummaton Quarries, West of St. Mary Church, Lummaton Parrish, Torquay, which is in a Givetian carbonate limestone in the Torquay Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal carnivore-detritivore

Distribution: found only at Lummaton Quarries, West of St. Mary Church, Lummaton Parrish, Torquay

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