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Knightinella ornata Nützel and Ketwetsuriya 2016 (snail)

Gastropoda - Trochonematidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 346863

Full reference: A. Nützel and C. Ketwetsuriya. 2016. Systematic palaeontology, in Permian gastropods from the Tak Fa Limestone, Nakhon Sawan, northern Thailand. Bulletin of Geosciences 91:481-513

Belongs to Knightinella according to A. Nützel and C. Ketwetsuriya 2016

Sister taxon: Knightinella humerosa

Type specimen: SNSB-BSPG 2014 XI 39, a shell. Its type locality is Khao Noi, unspecified block, which is in a Wordian open shallow subtidal packstone in the Tak Fa Formation of Thailand.

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): shell width 10.2