Turbonitella ussheri Whidborne 1891 (snail)

Gastropoda - Neritoina - Neritopsidae

Alternative combination: Littorina ussheri

Full reference: G. F. Whidborne. 1891. A monograph of the Devonian fauna of the south of England. Volume I - Part III. The fauna of the limestones of Lummaton, Wolborough, Chircombe Bridge, and Chudleigh. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 44:155-250

Belongs to Turbonitella according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Beyer 1896, Dahmer 1926, Heidelberger 2001, Paeckelmann 1922, Perner 1903, Perner 1907 and Whidborne 1891

Sister taxa: Turbonitella biserialis, Turbonitella chatzepetovkensis, Turbonitella fraterna, Turbonitella gracillima, Turbonitella humilis, Turbonitella ovoides, Turbonitella primula, Turbonitella proligera, Turbonitella pusilla, Turbonitella semisulcatus, Turbonitella sigana, Turbonitella strialata, Turbonitella trunculinoda, Turbonitella tuberculata, Turbonitella turberculata

Type specimen: Its type locality is Lummaton Quarries, West of St. Mary Church, Lummaton Parrish, Torquay, which is in a Givetian carbonate limestone in the Torquay Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: epifaunal

Distribution:

• Devonian of the Czech Republic (1 collection), Germany (6), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence

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