Austroscalata Waterhouse 1987 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Phymatopleuridae

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1987. Late Palaeozoic Mollusca and correlations from the south-east Bowen Basin, east Australia. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 198(4-6):129-233

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

See also Sepkoski 2002 and Waterhouse 1987

Sister taxa: Altotomaria, Borestus, Callitomaria, Catazona, Discotomaria, Eirlysia, Euryalox, Eymarella, Fetaspira, Juvenispira, Lamellospira, Paragoniozona, Perakella, Phymatopleura, Tapinotomaria, Termihabena, Trochotomaria, Vicnigoria, Worthenia

Subtaxa: Austroscalata branxtonensis Austroscalata marina

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Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at UQ L3099, Baralaba-Rannes road (Permian of Australia)

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