Tryblidium ovale Whitfield 1886 (mollusk)

Tergomya - Tryblidiida - Tryblidiidae

Full reference: R. P. Whitfield. 1886. Notice of geological investigations along the eastern shore of Lake Champlain, conducted by Prof. H.J. Seely and Pres. Ezra Brainerd, of Middlebury College, with descriptions of the new fossils discovered. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 1(8):24-35

Belongs to Tryblidium according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Whitfield 1886

Sister taxa: Tryblidium (Pilina), Tryblidium arctica, Tryblidium erato, Tryblidium eubule, Tryblidium exserta, Tryblidium hyrie, Tryblidium modestum, Tryblidium niobe, Tryblidium nycteis, Tryblidium ovatum, Tryblidium reticulatum, Tryblidium rugosum, Tryblidium simplex, Tryblidium thorsteinssoni

Type specimen: Its type locality is 227 - Promonotory on west end of Fort Cassin, Lake Champlain., which is in a Cassinian carbonate limestone in the Fort Cassin Formation of Vermont

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at 227 - Promonotory on west end of Fort Cassin, Lake Champlain.

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