Arjamannia pteronoides Longstaff 1924 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae

Alternative combination: Lophospira pteronoides

Full reference: J. D. Longstaff. 1924. Descriptions of Gasteropoda, chiefly in Mrs. Robert Gray's collection, from the Ordovician and Lower Silurian of Girvan. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 80(4):408-446

Belongs to Arjamannia according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Longstaff 1924 and Wagner 1999

Sister taxa: Arjamannia aulangonensis, Arjamannia bellicarinata, Arjamannia cancellatula, Arjamannia inexpectans, Arjamannia sybellina, Arjamannia thraivensis, Arjamannia turrita, Arjamannia woodlandi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Locality 7: Woodland Point, 430 meters west of Woodland farm (section only exposed at low-tide), which is in a Rhuddanian marine limestone in the Saugh Hill Grits Formation of the United Kingdom

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Locality 7: Woodland Point, 430 meters west of Woodland farm (section only exposed at low-tide)

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