Tropidodiscus nakazatensis Kase and Nishida 1986 (snail)

Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae

Full reference: T. Kase and T. Nishida. 1986. A middle Devonian gastropod faunule from the Nakazato Formation of Kitakami, Northeast Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series C 12(3):73-89

Belongs to Tropidodiscus according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Cook 1995 and Kase and Nishida 1986

Sister taxa: Tropidodiscus (Tropidodiscus), Tropidodiscus (Umbilicatus), Tropidodiscus annularis, Tropidodiscus antarcticus, Tropidodiscus arisaigensis, Tropidodiscus carinatus, Tropidodiscus carnicus, Tropidodiscus centrifugulus, Tropidodiscus compticarinatus, Tropidodiscus cultricarinatus, Tropidodiscus curvilineatus, Tropidodiscus decussata, Tropidodiscus delanoui, Tropidodiscus foliatus, Tropidodiscus geyeri, Tropidodiscus globosus, Tropidodiscus imitator, Tropidodiscus minimus, Tropidodiscus obex, Tropidodiscus phoenix, Tropidodiscus pragensis, Tropidodiscus regularis, Tropidodiscus rotula, Tropidodiscus vesculilineatus, Tropidodiscus waratahensis, Oxydiscus bougangensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Hikoroichi District Southern Kitakami Massif, which is in an Eifelian marine horizon in the Nakazato Formation of Japan

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Hikoroichi District Southern Kitakami Massif

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