Orecopia murrayi Tassell 1978 (snail)

Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Omphalotrochidae

Full reference: C. B. Tassell. 1978. Gastropods from the Early Devonian Bell Point Limestone, Cape Liptrap Penninsula, Victoria. Memoirs of the Natural History Museum, Victoria 39(1):19-32

Belongs to Orecopia according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Tassell 1978

Sister taxa: Orecopia circinatus, Orecopia cotei, Orecopia inopinata, Orecopia kadzielniae, Orecopia mccoyi, Orecopia priscum

Type specimen: Its type locality is Bell Point, Cape Liptrap Peninsula, 150 kilometers south-east of Melbourne, which is in an Emsian carbonate limestone in the Bell Point Limestone Formation of Australia

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Bell Point, Cape Liptrap Peninsula, 150 kilometers south-east of Melbourne

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