Streptacis piercei Erwin 1988 (snail)

Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Streptacididae

Full reference: D. H. Erwin. 1988. Permian Gastropoda of the southwestern United States: Cerithiacean, Acteonacea, and Pyramidellacea. Journal of Paleontology 62(4):566-575

Belongs to Streptacis according to D. H. Erwin 1988

Sister taxa: Streptacis complanata, Streptacis fragilis, Streptacis inflata, Streptacis ingens, Streptacis khaokhadensis, Streptacis meeki, Streptacis nalivkini, Streptacis orientalis, Streptacis permiana, Streptacis pravis, Streptacis regularis, Streptacis scalpta, Streptacis subgracilis, Streptacis volgenesis, Streptacis whitfieldi

Type specimen: AMNH 429236, a shell. Its type locality is AMNH678, Cutoff Mountain, Guadalupe Mountains, which is in a Kungurian slope limestone in the Cutoff Formation of Texas.

Ecology: epifaunal

Distribution: found only at AMNH678, Cutoff Mountain, Guadalupe Mountains

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