Purkynespira reticulata Frýda and Bandel 1997 (snail)

Gastropoda - Vetigastropoda

Full reference: J. Frýda and K. Bandel. 1997. New Early Devonian gastropods from the Plectonotus (Boucotonotus) - Palaeozygopleura community in the Prague Basin (Bohemia). Mitteilungen Geologie-Paläontologie Institut der Universitat Hamburg 80:1-57

Belongs to Purkynespira according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Frýda and Bandel 1997 and Frýda and Blodgett 2001

Sister taxon: Purkynespira parvulum

Type specimen: Its type locality is Barrandov I, which is in a Pragian carbonate limestone in the Dvorce-Prokop Formation of the Czech Republic

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at Barrandov I

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