Euconospira halliana Shumard 1859

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae

Alternative combination: Pleurotomaria halliana

Full reference: B. F. Shumard. 1859. Notice of fossils from the Permian strata of Texas and New Mexico obtained by the United States expedition under Capt. John Pope, for boring artesian wells along the 32nd parallel, with descriptions of new species from these strata and the Coal Measures of that region. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 1:387-402

Belongs to Euconospira according to E. L. Yochelson and B.W. Saunders 1967

See also Shumard 1859

Sister taxa: Euconispira bicarinata, Euconospira conica, Euconospira conimorpha, Euconospira conula, Euconospira cryptolirata, Euconospira desereti, Euconospira disjuncta, Euconospira elegantula, Euconospira elongata, Euconospira equisita, Euconospira hermosana, Euconospira missouriensis, Euconospira neptuni, Euconospira nipponica, Euconospira nodosa, Euconospira obsoleta, Euconospira perlimbata, Euconospira planoconvexa, Euconospira skuini, Euconospira spiroperforata, Euconospira striatula, Euconospira sturgeoni, Euconospira trochiformis, Euconospira turbiniformis, Euconospira varizona, Euconospira waterlooensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is White limestone of the Guadalupe Mountains, which is in a Capitanian reef, buildup or bioherm limestone in the Capitan Formation of Texas

Distribution: found only at White limestone of the Guadalupe Mountains

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