ammonites
Stachella crucilirata Dickins 1963 (snail)

Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae

Full reference: J. M. Dickins. 1963. Permian pelecypods and gastropods from western Australia. Bulletin of the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics 63:1-203

Belongs to Stachella according to J. M. Dickins 1963

Sister taxa: Stachella bicarinata, Stachella bifrons, Stachella inflata, Stachella micra, Stachella semiaurita

Type specimen: CPC 3972, a shell. Its type locality is BMR PB9, Becketts Gully, Irwin River Area, which is in a Sakmarian shallow subtidal limestone in the Fossil Cliff Formation of Australia.

Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell 14.5 x 12.6