Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Alternative combination: Pleurotomaria neapolitana
Full reference: G. F. Whidborne. 1892. A monograph of the Devonian fauna of the south of England. Volume I - Part IV. The fauna of the limestones of Lummaton, Wolborough, Chircombe Bridge, and Chudleigh. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 45:251-335
Belongs to Bembexia according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Whidborne 1892
Sister taxa: Bembexia adjutor, Bembexia babini, Bembexia chapernowni, Bembexia crenatostriata, Bembexia disjuncta, Bembexia gradilispira, Bembexia headillus, Bembexia insolita, Bembexia inumbilicata, Bembexia laevis, Bembexia larteti, Bembexia micula, Bembexia minima, Bembexia seminuda, Bembexia tricinctus
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: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of the United Kingdom (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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