Sinuitina (Vorticina) venata Girty 1910 (snail)

Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae

Alternative combinations: Oxydiscus venata, Sinuitina venata, Tropidodiscus venata

Full reference: G. H. Girty. 1910. New genera and species of Carboniferous fossils from the Fayetteville shale of Arkansas. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20(3):189-238

Belongs to Sinuitina (Vorticina) according to M. Gordon and E. L. Yochelson 1987

See also Girty 1910, Yochelson 1969 and Yochelson and Saunders 1967

Sister taxa: Sinuitina (Vorticina) keytei, Sinuitina (Vorticina) rugosiuscula, Sinuitina (Vorticina) taeniata, Vorticina anneae, Vorticina cyrtolites, Vorticina vortex

Type specimen: USNM 161320, a shell

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at USNM 3651A-C. along south bluff hill. (Carboniferous of Arkansas)

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