Alaskacirrus Frýda and Blodgett 1998 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae

Full reference: J. Frýda and R. B. Blodgett. 1998. Two new cirroidean genera (Vetigastropoda, Archaeogastropoda) from the Emsian (late Early Devonian) of Alaska with notes on the Early Phylogeny of Cirroidea. Journal of Paleontology 72(2):265-273

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

See also Frýda and Blodgett 1998, Frýda and Blodgett 2004 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Bensbergia, Bulimorpha, Decorochilina, Havlicekiela, Ianthinopsis, Ischnoptygminae, Labridens, Leptoptygma, Macrocheilus permicus, Macrochilininae, Nanochilina, Palaeocarboninia, Procerithiopsis, Prokopiconchinae, Scalitina, Soleniscinae, Soleniscus

Subtaxa: Alaskacirrus bandeli

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Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at 83RB9, south flank of Limestone Mountain (Devonian of Alaska)

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