Scoliostoma megalostoma Sandberger and Sandberger 1854 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Scoliostomatidae

Synonyms: Pleurotomaria zitteli Holzapfel 1882, Scoliostoma zitteli Holzapfel 1882

Full reference: G. Sandberger and F. Sandberger. 1854. Die Versteinerungen rheinischen Schichtensystems in Nassau. Mit einer kurzgefassten Geognosie diese Gebietes und mit steter Berücksichtigung analoger Schichten anderer Länder 4:201-232

Belongs to Scoliostoma according to G. Sandberger and F. Sandberger 1854

See also Holzapfel 1882 and Wagner 2023

Sister taxa: Scoliostoma americana, Scoliostoma crassilabrum, Scoliostoma dannenbergi, Scoliostoma expansilabrum, Scoliostoma textatum

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Adorf, Grube Martenberg, 1 alpha (Devonian of Germany)

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