Amaurotoma Knight 1945 (snail)

Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Microdomatidae

Full reference: J. B. Knight. 1945. Some new genera of Paleozoic Gastropoda. Journal of Paleontology 19(6):573-587

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

See also Ketwetsuriya et al. 2020, Knight et al. 1960, Kues and Batten 2001, Nützel and Ketwetsuriya 2016 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Copidocatomus, Cyclites, Cyclobathmus, Episfaxis, Glyptospira, Kinkaidia, Knightinella, Microdoma, Microdomatinae, Tunstallia

Subtaxa: Amaurotoma kizilkiensis Amaurotoma kljasmensis Amaurotoma knighti Amaurotoma leavenworthana Amaurotoma mjatschkovensis Amaurotoma multispirata Amaurotoma subangulatum Amaurotoma subhumerosum Amaurotoma subsinuata Amaurotoma zappa

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Type: Pleurotomaria subsinuata

Ecology: stationary epifaunal detritivore

Distribution:

• Permian of Argentina (1 collection), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (3), Thailand (2), United States (2: Nevada)

• Virgilian of United States (1: New Mexico)

• Desmoinesian of United States (2: Missouri, Texas)

• Carboniferous of Argentina (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (8: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, New mexico, Oklahoma)

Total: 23 collections including 25 occurrences

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