Biangularia Spitz 1907 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae

Alternative spelling: Pleurotomaria (Biangularia)

Full reference: A. Spitz. 1907. Die Gastropoden des Karnischen Unterdevon: Beiträge zur Paläontologie und Geologie Österreich-Ungarns und des Orients. Geologischen und Paläontologischen Instut, Üniversityat Wien, Mitteilung 20:115-190

Parent taxon: Murchisoniidae according to J. B. Knight et al. 1960

See also Sepkoski 2002 and Spitz 1907

Sister taxa: Anarconcha, Barroisocaulus, Bellazona, Brilonella, Cyrtostropha, Devonocerithioides, Domiporta, Eohormotomina, Farewellia, Glyphodeta, Helicospira, Kaseiella, Leptorima, Lodanaria, Mesocoelia, Michelia, Micheliopsis, Micrentoma, Morania, Murchisonia, Parahormotomina, Predazzella, Protospira, Pseudoaclisina, Vladanella, Wuxuanella

Subtaxa: Biangularia frechi

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Type: Pleurotomaria (Biangularia) frechi

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Light Gray Riffskalk, Judenköpf, im Westen des Coglians, Carnic Alps (Devonian of Austria)

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