ammonites
Warthia kingi Moore 1941 (snail)

Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae

Full reference: R. C. Moore. 1941. Upper Pennsylvanian gastropods from Kansas. State Geological Survey of Kansas Bulletin 38(4):121-162

Belongs to Warthia according to P. J. Wagner 2011

Sister taxa: Warthia americana, Warthia angustior, Warthia borealis, Warthia brevisinuata, Warthia brevizonata, Warthia carinata, Warthia crassus, Warthia fissus, Warthia hisakatsui, Warthia huayingshanensis, Warthia imtatschanensis, Warthia intermedia, Warthia lata, Warthia micromphala, Warthia perspecta, Warthia polita, Warthia saundersi, Warthia stricta, Warthia vaceki, Warthia waageni, Warthia welleri, Warthia zakharovi

Type specimen: Its type locality is US Highway 40, 9.4 miles west of Lawrence, 3 miles south of Lecompton, which is in a Virgilian carbonate limestone in the Deer Creek Formation of Kansas

Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal carnivore