Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Zygopleuridae

Full reference: S. Dominici. 2024. Taxonomic names, in A Middle Triassic Cassian‐type fauna (Pelsa‐Vazzoler Lagerstätte) and the adaptive radiation of the Modern evolutionary fauna. Papers in Palaeontology 10(e1579)

Belongs to Zygopleura according to S. Dominici 2024

Sister taxa: Zygopleura (Allostrophia), Zygopleura (Xizangospira), Zygopleura angulata, Zygopleura arctecostata, Zygopleura benoisti, Zygopleura brevis, Zygopleura cylindrica, Zygopleura dubia, Zygopleura dubia, Zygopleura etalensis, Zygopleura geniculata, Zygopleura goldbergi, Zygopleura granietzensis, Zygopleura haasi, Zygopleura hybrida, Zygopleura nitida, Zygopleura numidis, Zygopleura porulosa, Zygopleura roessleri, Zygopleura simplex, Zygopleura spiralina, Zygopleura swalloviana, Zygopleura tenuis, Zygopleura tunisiensis, Zygopleura verrucosa, Zygopleura walmstedti, Zygopleura yunnanensis

Type specimen: MGP-PD 33139, a shell. Its type locality is PEL93, Pelsa-Vazzoler, which is in a Longobardian perireef or subreef limestone in the Sciliar Formation of Italy.

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at PEL93, Pelsa-Vazzoler

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