Ulungaratoconcha heidelbergeri Blodgett and Cook 2002 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Cheeneetnukiidae

Full reference: R. B. Blodgett and A. G. Cook. 2002. Cheeneetnukiidae, a new Middle Devonian murchisonioid gastropod family, including the new genera Cheeneetnukia and Ulungaratoconcha based on representatives from Alaska and Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 48(1):17-28

Belongs to Ulungaratoconcha according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Blodgett and Cook 2002

Sister taxa: Ulungaratoconcha bicoronata, Ulungaratoconcha bigranulosa, Ulungaratoconcha binodosa, Ulungaratoconcha bononi, Ulungaratoconcha coronata, Ulungaratoconcha intermedia, Ulungaratoconcha lennensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is 89A-126A1, which is in an Eifelian basinal (siliceous) siltstone/mudstone in the Ulungarat Formation of Alaska

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at 89A-126A1

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