Temnodiscus fletcheri Reed 1921 (snail)

Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae

Full reference: F. R. C. Reed. 1921. A monograph of the British Ordovician and Silurian Bellerophontacea. The Palaeontographical Society 31:1-92

Belongs to Temnodiscus according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Reed 1921

Sister taxa: Temnodiscus accola, Temnodiscus arrosus, Temnodiscus euryomphalus, Temnodiscus eximius, Temnodiscus imbricatus, Temnodiscus ingricus, Temnodiscus lamellifer, Temnodiscus minuta, Temnodiscus nautilinus, Temnodiscus nitidula, Temnodiscus obliquus, Temnodiscus ogygiae, Temnodiscus orbiculus, Temnodiscus parvus, Temnodiscus pharetroides, Temnodiscus pleurogonus, Temnodiscus salopiensis, Temnodiscus secans, Temnodiscus solitarius, Temnodiscus suecicus, Temnodiscus viator

Type specimen: Its type locality is Proetus concinnus-Warburgella stokesii Assemblage, Much Wenlock Limestone, which is in a Homerian marine grainstone/lime mudstone in the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation of the United Kingdom

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Proetus concinnus-Warburgella stokesii Assemblage, Much Wenlock Limestone

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