Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Alternative combinations: Mourlonia mississippiensis, Pleurotomaria mississippiensis, Worthenia (Yochelsonospira) mississippiensis, Worthenia mississippiensis
Full reference: C. A. White and R. P. Whitfield. 1862. Observations upon the rocks of the Mississippian Valley which have been referred to the Chemung Group of New York, together with descriptions of new species from the same horizon at Burlington, Iowa. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 8:289-306
Belongs to Yochelsonospira according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Gordon and Yochelson 1987, Knight and Bridge 1944, Thein and Nitecki 1974, Weller 1901, White and Whitfield 1862 and Yochelson and Saunders 1967
Sister taxa: Worthenia (Yochelsonospira) kuesi, Yochelsonospira gairensis, Yochelsonospira monensis, Yochelsonospira nauvooensis, Yochelsonospira northviewensis, Yochelsonospira tenuilineata, Yochelsonospira thomasi
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Yochelsonospira mississippiensis in the database
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