Lophonema costata Kobayashi 1959 (snail)

Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Helicotomidae

Alternative combination: Helicotoma costata

Full reference: T. Kobayashi. 1959. On some Ordovician fossils from northern Malaya and her adjacence. Tokyo University, Faculty Science Journal Sec. 2 11(4):387-407

Belongs to Lophonema according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Kobayashi 1959

Sister taxa: Lophonema abrupta, Lophonema calphurnia, Lophonema circumlirata, Lophonema frydai, Lophonema orientalia, Lophonema peccatonica, Lophonema perstriata, Lophonema taneyensis, Lophonema tricarinata, Lophonema wuhuensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Kobayashi Locality 30. Northern part of Palau Tantong, which is in a Fennian carbonate limestone in the Lower Setul Formation of Malaysia.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Kobayashi Locality 30. Northern part of Palau Tantong

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