Phragmolites hyperboreus Troedsson 1928 (snail)

Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae

Full reference: G.T. Troedsson. 1928. On the Middle and Upper Ordovician faunas of northern Greenland. Museum de Minéralogie et de Géologie de L'Université de Copenhague, Communications Paléontologiques 30:1-197

Belongs to Phragmolites according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Ebbestad 1999, Peel 1991 and Troedsson 1928

Sister taxa: Phragmolites bellulus, Phragmolites cellulosus, Phragmolites compressus, Phragmolites desideratus, Phragmolites dyeri, Phragmolites elegans, Phragmolites excavatus, Phragmolites fimbriata, Phragmolites girvanensis, Phragmolites huoliensis, Phragmolites imbricata, Phragmolites lindstroemi, Phragmolites multinotatus, Phragmolites obliquus, Phragmolites pannosus, Phragmolites phaecus, Phragmolites sladensis, Phragmolites slawsoni, Phragmolites suarezi, Phragmolites triangularis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Kap Calhoun, which is in a Cautleyan offshore ramp limestone in the Cape Calhoun Formation of Greenland

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Kap Calhoun

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