Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Palaeozygopleuridae
Alternative combination: Loxonema altacostatum
Full reference: C. B. Tassell. 1982. Gastropods from the Early Devonian "Receptaculites" Limestone, Taemas, New South Wales. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum 77:1-59
Belongs to Hornyzyga according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Blodgett and Johnson 1992, Cook 1995 and Tassell 1982
Sister taxon: Hornyzyga camilleriae
Type specimen: Its type locality is Chatterton Loc. B, lower half of Receptaculites Lst, near Yass, NSW, which is in an Emsian marine lime mudstone/grainstone in the Taemas Formation of Australia.
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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