Leptozyga Knight 1930

Gastropoda - Caenogastropoda - Fasciolariidae

Alternative spellings: Palaeostylus (Leptozyga), Pseudozygopleura (Leptozyga)

Full reference: J. B. Knight. 1930. The gastropods of the St. Louis, Missouri, Pennsylvanian outlier: the Pseudozygopleurinae. Journal of Paleontology Memoir 4(1):1-88

Parent taxon: Orthonemidae according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Knight 1930, Knight et al. 1960 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Carinanema, Cibecuia, Donaldospira, Heshanietta, Hypergonia, Knightella, Microlampra, Ohiopupa, Palaeostylus

Subtaxa: Leptozyga costata Leptozyga minuta Leptozyga venustus

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Distribution:

• Permian of Cambodia (1 collection), Malaysia (1)

• Carboniferous of Australia (1), United States (15: Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, West Virginia)

• Givetian of France (1)

Total: 19 collections each including a single occurrence

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