Scoliostomina layensis Heidelberger 2001 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Scoliostomatidae

Full reference: D. Heidelberger. 2001. Mitteldevonische (Givetische) Gastropoden (Mollusca) aus der Lahnmulde (suedliches Rheinisches Schiefergebirge). Geologische Abhandlungen Hessen 106:1-291

Belongs to Scoliostomina according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Heidelberger 2001

Sister taxa: Scoliostomina conoideum, Scoliostomina gracile

Type specimen: Its type locality is Villmar, near Limburg (Lahn), which is in a Givetian marine limestone/reef rocks in the Cürten Formation of Germany

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Villmar, near Limburg (Lahn)

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