Cyrtospira brevis Winchell and Marcy 1866 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Subulitidae

Alternative combination: Subulites brevis

Full reference: A. Winchell and O. Marcy. 1866. Enumeration of fossils collected in the Niagara limestone at Chicago, Illinois, with descriptions of several new species. Boston Society of Natural History, Memoirs 1:81-114

Belongs to Cyrtospira according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Ulrich and Scofield 1897 and Winchell and Marcy 1866

Sister taxa: Cyrtospira abbreviatus, Cyrtospira aequalis, Cyrtospira bicurvata, Cyrtospira directus, Cyrtospira funata, Cyrtospira granum, Cyrtospira huenei, Cyrtospira inexpectata, Cyrtospira lineatus, Cyrtospira nitens, Cyrtospira notata, Cyrtospira ornatus, Cyrtospira parvula, Cyrtospira raymondi, Cyrtospira tortilis, Cyrtospira ventricosus, Cyrtospira wykoffensis

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Cyrtospira brevis in the database

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