Agniesella cancellata Phillips 1841 (snail)

Gastropoda - Pleurotomarioidea

Alternative combination: Pleurotomaria cancellata

Full reference: J. Phillips. 1841. Figures and descriptions of the Palaeozoic fossils of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset; observed in the course of the Ordinance Geological Survey of that district. Geological Society of London 1-231

Belongs to Agniesella according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Phillips 1841 and Whidborne 1892

Sister taxa: Agniesella aratula, Agniesella chudleighensis, Agniesella wurmi, Gyroma baconnierensis, Pleurotomaria (Gyroma) illudens

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at Wolborough Quarry, on the east side of the A381 due east of Wolborough church (Devonian of the United Kingdom)

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