Cylindritopsis spheroides Erwin 1988 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae

Full reference: D. H. Erwin. 1988. Permian Gastropoda of the southwestern United States: Subulitacea. Journal of Paleontology 62(1):56-69

Belongs to Cylindritopsis according to A. Nützel and C. Ketwetsuriya 2016

See also Erwin 1988

Sister taxa: Cylindritopsis altica, Cylindritopsis callosa, Cylindritopsis cheilodonta, Cylindritopsis conica, Cylindritopsis cordiformis, Cylindritopsis gemmelaroi, Cylindritopsis hamiltonae, Cylindritopsis inflata, Cylindritopsis insolitus, Cylindritopsis minima, Cylindritopsis ovalis, Cylindritopsis sisophonensis, Cylindritopsis vaningeni

Type specimen: USNM 400707, a shell. Its type locality is USNM710d, Lenox Hills, Glass Mountains, which is in a Kungurian marine limestone in the Cathedral Mountain Formation of Texas.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Permian of Thailand (1 collection), United States (1: Texas)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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