Mourlonia missouriensis Weller 1906 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae

Alternative combination: Ptychomphalus missouriensis

Full reference: S. Weller. 1906. Kinderhook faunal studies, IV. The fauna of the Glen Park limestone. Academy of Science of St. Louis Transactions 16:435-471

Belongs to Mourlonia according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Thein and Nitecki 1974 and Weller 1906

Sister taxa: Mourlonia agassizi, Mourlonia broondensis, Mourlonia carinata, Mourlonia expansa, Mourlonia filitexta, Mourlonia globosa, Mourlonia guestphalica, Mourlonia italica, Mourlonia lativittata, Mourlonia macrostoma, Mourlonia naticoides, Mourlonia nigra, Mourlonia pisa, Mourlonia placida, Mourlonia plena, Mourlonia reloba, Mourlonia rugulata, Mourlonia striata, Mourlonia subzona, Mourlonia teichertensis, Mourlonia tenuiarata, Mourlonia tenuilineata, Mourlonia textiligera, Mourlonia textus, Mourlonia turbinea, Mourlonia venusta, Mourlonia vicinalis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Goetz's Lime Quarry, just below Glen Park Station, which is in a Kinderhookian carbonate limestone in the Glen Park Formation of Missouri

Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Goetz's Lime Quarry, just below Glen Park Station

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