Paraliospira Rohr 1980 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae

Full reference: D. M. Rohr. 1980. Ordovician - Devonian Gastropoda from the Klamath Mountains, California. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 171:141-199

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

See also Rohr 1980 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Ambozoniinae, Eotomariinae, Kamupena, Liospirinae, Pseudoananias, Semizona, Takfaia, Turritoma

Subtaxa: Paraliospira abrupta Paraliospira angulata Paraliospira eugenia Paraliospira gradata Paraliospira helena Paraliospira larvata Paraliospira mundula Paraliospira parva Paraliospira planata Paraliospira rugata Paraliospira rupestris Paraliospira supracingulata

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Type: Liospira mundula

Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore

Distribution:

• Ordovician of Canada (25: Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec collections), Norway (1), United States (38: Alaska, California, Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Ohio, Tennessee, Wisconsin)

Total: 64 collections including 93 occurrences

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