Micrentoma Donald 1898 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae

Full reference: J. G. Donald. 1898. Observations on the genus Aclisina, de Koninck, with descriptions of British species and of some other Carboniferous Gasteropoda. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 54(1):45-72

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

See also Sepkoski 2002

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

Subtaxa: Micrentoma nana Micrentoma yunnanensis

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Type: Aclisina nana

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of Belgium (1 collection), China (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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