Bembexia gradilispira Linsley and Kesling 1982 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae

Full reference: R. M. Linsley and R. V. Kesling. 1982. A Detroit River (Middle Devonian) Fauna from the Subsurface of Illinois. Journal of Paleontology 56(5):1079-1092

Belongs to Bembexia according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Linsley and Kesling 1982

Sister taxa: Bembexia adjutor, Bembexia babini, Bembexia chapernowni, Bembexia crenatostriata, Bembexia disjuncta, Bembexia headillus, Bembexia insolita, Bembexia inumbilicata, Bembexia laevis, Bembexia larteti, Bembexia micula, Bembexia minima, Bembexia neapolitana, Bembexia seminuda, Bembexia tricinctus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Drilling on the Herkimer farm, 2.41 km northwest of the center of Mattoon, which is in a Devonian marine limestone in the Grand Tower Limestone Formation of Illinois

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Drilling on the Herkimer farm, 2.41 km northwest of the center of Mattoon

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