Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Full reference: C. B. Tassell. 1978. Gastropods from the Early Devonian Bell Point Limestone, Cape Liptrap Penninsula, Victoria. Memoirs of the Natural History Museum, Victoria 39(1):19-32
Belongs to Tropidodiscus according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Tassell 1978
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 nakazatensis, Tropidodiscus obex, Tropidodiscus phoenix, Tropidodiscus pragensis, Tropidodiscus regularis, Tropidodiscus rotula, Tropidodiscus vesculilineatus, Oxydiscus bougangensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Bell Point, Cape Liptrap Peninsula, 150 kilometers south-east of Melbourne, which is in an Emsian carbonate limestone in the Bell Point Limestone Formation of Australia
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Bell Point, Cape Liptrap Peninsula, 150 kilometers south-east of Melbourne
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