Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Alternative combinations: Oxydiscus venata, Sinuitina venata, Tropidodiscus venata
Full reference: G. H. Girty. 1910. New genera and species of Carboniferous fossils from the Fayetteville shale of Arkansas. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20(3):189-238
Belongs to Sinuitina (Vorticina) according to M. Gordon and E. L. Yochelson 1987
See also Girty 1910, Yochelson 1969 and Yochelson and Saunders 1967
Sister taxa: Sinuitina (Vorticina) keytei, Sinuitina (Vorticina) rugosiuscula, Sinuitina (Vorticina) taeniata, Vorticina anneae, Vorticina cyrtolites, Vorticina vortex
Type specimen: USNM 161320, a shell
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at USNM 3651A-C. along south bluff hill. (Carboniferous of Arkansas)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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