Cyclozyga Knight 1930 (snail)

Gastropoda - Zygopleuroidea - Pseudozygopleuridae

Alternative spelling: Zygopleura (Cyclozyga)

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

Parent taxon: Pseudozygopleuridae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005

See also Elias 1958, Knight 1930, Knight et al. 1960 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Bandelzyga, Eoptychia, Gamizyga, Helminthozyga, Hemizyga, Hyphantozyga, Levizygopleura, Microptychis, Plocezyga, Pseudoplocezyga, Pseudozygopleura, Stephanozyga

Subtaxa: Cyclozyga attenuata Cyclozyga carinata Cyclozyga micra Cyclozyga mirabilis Cyclozyga neotenica Cyclozyga sinusigera

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Type: Cyclozyga mirabilis

Ecology: epifaunal

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of Australia (3 collections), United States (9: Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma)

• Devonian of United States (1: Arizona)

Total: 13 collections including 15 occurrences

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