Sallya lirata Chronic 1952 (snail)

Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Pseudophoridae

Alternative combination: Eotrochus liratus

Full reference: H. Chronic. 1952. Molluscan fauna from the Permian Kaibab Formation, Walnut Canyon, Arizona. Geological Society America Bulletin 63(2):95-166

Belongs to Sallya according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Chronic 1952, Kulas and Batten 1997 and Yochelson 1956

Sister taxa: Sallya bicincta, Sallya bimaris, Sallya indigena, Sallya linsa, Sallya striata, Sallya terendaka

Type specimen: AMNH 27111:1, a shell. Its type locality is Rimmy Jim Tank, Kaibab Formation, Coconino County, which is in a Roadian marine limestone in the Kaibab Formation of Arizona.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 6.27

Distribution: found only at Rimmy Jim Tank, Kaibab Formation, Coconino County

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