Pseudozygopleura knighti Yochelson 1962 (snail)

Gastropoda - Zygopleuroidea - Pseudozygopleuridae

Alternative combination: Loxonema knighti

Full reference: E. L. Yochelson. 1962. Gastropods from the Redwall Limestone (Mississippian) in Arizona. Journal of Paleontology 36(1):74-80

Belongs to Pseudozygopleura according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Mazaev 2019 and Yochelson 1962

Sister taxa: Palaeostylus (Pseudozygopleura) belli, Palaeostylus (Pseudozygopleura) eucharis, Palaeostylus (Pseudozygopleura) obtusicacuminis, Palaeostylus (Pseudozygopleura) terebrus, Pseudozygopleura (Hemizygoides), Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura), Pseudozygopleura acuminata, Pseudozygopleura angustata, Pseudozygopleura applicata, Pseudozygopleura assertonsoris, Pseudozygopleura baltea, Pseudozygopleura cirritus, Pseudozygopleura condrai, Pseudozygopleura contractus, Pseudozygopleura croneisi, Pseudozygopleura deloi, Pseudozygopleura eximia, Pseudozygopleura funis, Pseudozygopleura girtyi, Pseudozygopleura gradatus, Pseudozygopleura irrugata, Pseudozygopleura kellettae, Pseudozygopleura lanceolatus, Pseudozygopleura lefebvrei, Pseudozygopleura limus, Pseudozygopleura macra, Pseudozygopleura micra, Pseudozygopleura moorei, Pseudozygopleura mucronatus, Pseudozygopleura multicostata, Pseudozygopleura obtusicacuminis, Pseudozygopleura palus, Pseudozygopleura pandus, Pseudozygopleura perversa, Pseudozygopleura plebium, Pseudozygopleura plummeri, Pseudozygopleura pluricostata, Pseudozygopleura pugonis, Pseudozygopleura pulchra, Pseudozygopleura pupa, Pseudozygopleura rectus, Pseudozygopleura restis, Pseudozygopleura rugosocostata, Pseudozygopleura schucherti, Pseudozygopleura scitula, Pseudozygopleura scruposus, Pseudozygopleura semicostata, Pseudozygopleura sinuosior, Pseudozygopleura smithiana, Pseudozygopleura subclathrata, Pseudozygopleura subulatus, Pseudozygopleura tenuivirga, Pseudozygopleura variegata, Pseudozygopleura yandellana, Pseudozygopleura (Pyrgozyga) warthini, Pyrgozyga marvinwelleri

Type specimen: USNM 138991, a shell. Its type locality is Jerome Hill Section, which is in an Osagean carbonate limestone/chert in the Redwall Limestone Formation of Arizona.

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution:

• Permian of the Russian Federation (1 collection)

• Carboniferous of United States (1: Arizona)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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