Hemizyga inflata Knight 1930 (snail)

Gastropoda - Zygopleuroidea - Pseudozygopleuridae

Alternative combination: Hemizyga (Hemizyga) inflata

Full reference: J. B. Knight. 1930. The gastropods of the St. Louis, Missouri, Pennsylvanian outlier: the Pseudozygopleurinae. Journal of Paleontology Memoir 4(1):1-88

Belongs to Hemizyga according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Hoare 1961, Knight 1930 and Kues and Batten 2001

Sister taxa: Hemizyga (Hemizyga), Hemizyga attenuata, Hemizyga dubia, Hemizyga elegans, Hemizyga grandicostata, Hemizyga illineata, Hemizyga larga

Type specimen: YPM 12999, a shell. Its type locality is SL-1. Headwaters of Feefee Creek, north of Olive St. & west of Lindberg Blvd., 1.5 km northwest of Stratmann (Olivette), which is in a Moscovian offshore shale in the Appanoose Formation of Missouri.

Ecology: epifaunal

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of United States (2: Missouri collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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