Gastropoda - Prosobranchia - Pseudozygopleuridae

Full reference: J.L. Carew. 1980. A new Pennsylvanian pseudozygopleurid gastropod from Texas. Journal of Paleontology 54(6):1209-1212

Belongs to Palaeostylus (Pseudozygopleura) according to J.L. Carew 1980

Sister taxa: Palaeostylus (Pseudozygopleura) eucharis, Palaeostylus (Pseudozygopleura) terebrus, Pseudozygopleura (Hemizygoides), Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura), Pseudozygopleura acuminata, Pseudozygopleura angustata, Pseudozygopleura assertonsoris, Pseudozygopleura baltea, Pseudozygopleura cirritus, Pseudozygopleura condrai, Pseudozygopleura contractus, Pseudozygopleura croneisi, Pseudozygopleura deloi, Pseudozygopleura eximia, Pseudozygopleura funis, Pseudozygopleura girtyi, Pseudozygopleura gracilis, Pseudozygopleura gradatus, Pseudozygopleura irrugata, Pseudozygopleura kellettae, Pseudozygopleura knighti, Pseudozygopleura lanceolatus, Pseudozygopleura lefebvrei, Pseudozygopleura limus, Pseudozygopleura macra, Pseudozygopleura micra, Pseudozygopleura moorei, Pseudozygopleura mucronatus, Pseudozygopleura multicostata, Pseudozygopleura palus, Pseudozygopleura pandus, Pseudozygopleura perversa, Pseudozygopleura plummeri, Pseudozygopleura pluricostata, Pseudozygopleura pugonis, Pseudozygopleura pulchra, Pseudozygopleura pupa, Pseudozygopleura rectus, Pseudozygopleura restis, Pseudozygopleura schucherti, Pseudozygopleura scitula, Pseudozygopleura scruposus, Pseudozygopleura semicostata, Pseudozygopleura sinuosior, Pseudozygopleura subulatus, Pseudozygopleura tenuivirga, Pseudozygopleura variegata, Pseudozygopleura yandellana, Pseudozygopleura (Pyrgozyga) warthini

Type specimen: UT 14331, a shell. Its type locality is Loc. 1. Gully below water tank at abandoned RR bridge, 2 km south of intersection of a metal sufaced road and Farm Road 207, which is in a Virgilian marine shale in the Graham Formation of Texas.

Ecology: epifaunal

Average measurements (in mm): shell 22.0 x 9.0