Abylea Sturgeon 1964 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae

Full reference: M. T. Sturgeon. 1964. Allegheny fossil invertebrates from eastern Ohio: Gastropoda. Journal of Paleontology 38(2):189-226

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

See also Sepkoski 2002 and Sturgeon 1964

Sister taxa: Ananias, Baylea, Bradyospira, Glabrocingulum, Hypselentoma, Lacunospira, Mourlonopsis, Nipponomaria, Pandospira, Plocostoma, Pseudobaylea, Shwedagonia, Sokella, Spiraculinella, Stenozone, Walnichollsia, Woolnoughia

Subtaxa: Abylea formosa Abylea insolitus Abylea minuta Abylea paradoxus

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Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Mmu-1. Abandoned strip mines, 4 miles south of Dresden (Carboniferous of Ohio)

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