Plocezyga Knight 1930

Gastropoda - Zygopleuroidea - Pseudozygopleuridae

Alternative spellings: Gamizyga (Plocezyga), Hemizyga (Plocezyga), Ploceozyga

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: Pseudozygopleurinae according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Hoare and Sturgeon 1980, Hoare and Sturgeon 1980, Knight 1930, Knight et al. 1960, Pan and Erwin 2002 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Bandelzyga, Cyclozyga, Eoptychia, Gamizyga, Helminthozyga, Hemizyga, Hyphantozyga, Levizygopleura, Microptychis, Pseudoplocezyga, Pseudozygopleura, Stephanozyga

Subtaxa: Hemizyga (Plocezyga) abolescens Hemizyga (Plocezyga) angularis Hemizyga (Plocezyga) convertacostata Hemizyga (Plocezyga) serocorona Hemizyga (Plocezyga) tenuis Plocezyga (Plocezyga) Plocezyga acuminata Plocezyga boikoi Plocezyga conica Plocezyga convexa Plocezyga cordiformis Plocezyga corona Plocezyga costata Plocezyga delicata Plocezyga excellens Plocezyga gruendeli Plocezyga indica Plocezyga intermedia Plocezyga lineata Plocezyga lirata Plocezyga markae Plocezyga minuta Plocezyga obscura Plocezyga ornata Plocezyga ornatissima Plocezyga percostata Plocezyga perminuta Plocezyga regularia Plocezyga salomonense Plocezyga subnodosa Plocezyga subquadrata Plocezyga tenuilirata Plocezyga turbinata Plocezyga venusta

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Distribution:

• Jurassic of Poland (1 collection)

• Permian of China (1), Greece (2), Italy (1), Malaysia (1), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (4)

• Carboniferous of United States (31: Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, West Virginia)

Total: 42 collections including 91 occurrences

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