Mesocoelia quarki Tassell 1982 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae

Full reference: C. B. Tassell. 1982. Gastropods from the Early Devonian "Receptaculites" Limestone, Taemas, New South Wales. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum 77:1-59

Belongs to Mesocoelia according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Pan and Cook 2003 and Tassell 1982

Sister taxa: Mesocoelia delicata, Mesocoelia discrepans, Mesocoelia gregaria, Mesocoelia iners, Mesocoelia janus, Mesocoelia libera, Mesocoelia obstipisutura, Mesocoelia priscum, Mesocoelia suspecta, Mesocoelia terebrans

Type specimen: Its type locality is Receptaculites Limestone, Taemas, 20 kilometers southwest of Yass, which is in an Emsian marine limestone in the Taemas Formation of Australia

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Receptaculites Limestone, Taemas, 20 kilometers southwest of Yass

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