Phymatopleura heteropleura Elias 1958 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Phymatopleuridae

Full reference: M. K. Elias. 1958. Late Mississippian fauna of the Redoak Hollow Formation of southern Oklahoma. Part IV. Gastropoda, scaphopoda, cephalopoda, thoracica, and problematica. Journal of Paleontology 32(1):1-57

Belongs to Phymatopleura according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Elias 1958

Sister taxa: Phymatopleura baccata, Phymatopleura brazoensis, Phymatopleura conica, Phymatopleura girtyi, Phymatopleura kattaensis, Phymatopleura linkiana, Phymatopleura missouriensis, Phymatopleura nodosa, Phymatopleura paraliensis, Phymatopleura preclara, Phymatopleura thyrrena, Phymatopleura uchhaliensis, Phymatopleura verneuili

Type specimen: Its type locality is Village of Milo, which is in a Serpukhovian offshore sandstone in the Redoak Hollow Formation of Oklahoma

Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Village of Milo

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