Catazone Perner 1907 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae

Alternative spelling: Murchisonia (Catazone)

Full reference: J. Perner. 1907. Gastéropodes, Tome 2: Pleurotomaridae et Murchisonidae 1-380

Parent taxon: Hormotomidae according to P. J. Wagner 1999

Sister taxa: Catozone, Coelocaulus, Diplozone, Gyrodoma, Hormotoma, Hormotomina, Medfracaulus, Plethospira, Ptychocaulus

Subtaxa: none

Type: Murchisonia (Catazone) cuneus

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Devonian of Canada (6: Northwest Territories collections), United States (3: Nevada, New York, Ohio)

• Silurian of Canada (1: Nova Scotia), China (3), Czechia (6), Estonia (1), the Russian Federation (6), Sweden (3), Ukraine (3)

Total: 32 collections including 42 occurrences

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