Acrospira Batten 1985 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina

Full reference: R. L. Batten. 1985. Gastropods and chitons from Perak, Malaysia. Part 3: the murchisoniids, cerithiids, loxonematids, and subulitids. American Museum Novitates 2829:1-40

Parent taxon: Loxonematacea according to R. L. Batten 1985

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Crassimarginatidae, Loxonematidae, Palaeozygopleuridae, Scoliostomatidae, Soleniscidae, Spirostylidae, Vetotuba, Zygopleuridae

Subtaxa: Acrospira cristata

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Type: Acrospira cristata

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at H.S. Lee Mine No. 8, Kinta Valley near Kampar (Permian of Malaysia)

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