Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Alternative combination: Ptychomphalus sinuatus
Full reference: S. Weller. 1916. Description of the Ste. Genevieve limestone fauna from Monroe County, Illinois. Contributions of the Walker Museum, University of Chicago 1:243-265
Belongs to Baylea according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Thein and Nitecki 1974 and Weller 1916
Sister taxa: Baylea arenaria, Baylea burtasorum, Baylea chimbulatiensis, Baylea coheni, Baylea concentrica, Baylea cordulae, Baylea dejactinensis, Baylea delawarensis, Baylea denjatinensis, Baylea derongensis, Baylea durga, Baylea foraminata, Baylea giffordi, Baylea grandicarinata, Baylea gurleyi, Baylea heterocarinata, Baylea huecoensis, Baylea inclinata, Baylea knighti, Baylea kuesi, Baylea kyschertianaeformis, Baylea loatienensis, Baylea longispira, Baylea minuta, Baylea parva, Baylea perthensis, Baylea praeburtasorum, Baylea queerlingensis, Baylea rigida, Baylea salomonensis, Baylea shilovskyi, Baylea spirolirata, Baylea subconstricta, Baylea supercrenata, Baylea tabulata, Baylea teicherti, Baylea tenera, Baylea trifibra, Baylea turbinata, Baylea umbilicata, Baylea verneuili, Baylea vjatkensis, Baylea weiningensis, Baylea yabeshigerui, Baylea yvanii
Type specimen: Its type locality is Bed No. 8, Fountain Creek, 2 miles southwest of Waterloo, which is in a Chesterian carbonate limestone in the Ste. Genevieve Formation of Illinois.
Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Bed No. 8, Fountain Creek, 2 miles southwest of Waterloo
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