Kawanamia Kase 1988 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae

Full reference: T. Kase. 1988. Early Carboniferous (Viséan) gastropods from the Hikoroichi Formation of the Kitakami Mountains, northeast Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan 149:361-370

Parent taxon: Lophospiridae according to T. Kase 1988

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Arjamannia, Biarmeaspira, Donaldiella, Ectomaria, Frodospira, Gyronematinae, Hanusispira, Longstaffia, Lophospira, Lophospirinae, Loxoplocus, Manzanospira, Paupospira, Platyworthenia, Ptychozone, Ruedemannia, Ruedemanniinae, Ruedemanninae, Triredimiculum, Yiningicus, Yochelsonospira

Subtaxa: Kawanamia onimarensis

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Type: Kawanamia onimarensis

Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Onimarua Quarry, Ofunato City (Carboniferous of Japan)

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