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Mode of life of a new onychochilid mollusc from the Lower Devonian of Bohemia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Jiří Frýda
Jiří Frýda*
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ústřední ústav geologický, Malostranské náměstí 19, 118 21 Praha 1, Czechoslovakia
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Abstract

A new molluscan genus, Voskopiella, from the Lower Devonian of Bohemia is described and assigned to the Onychochiloidea. The type and only known species is Voskopiella barborae n. sp. from the Nowakia elegans Zone (uppermost Zlichovian, =Emsian) of the Suchomasty Limestone. Also discussed are its ontogeny, variability, and pathological development of ornamentation, as well as the mode of life, in order to resolve the problem as to whether onychochiloideans are torted gastropods or untorted paragastropods. A foliage supported mode of life or life in close association on or within algal mats is suggested for Voskopiella barborae n. gen. and sp.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 66 , Issue 2 , March 1992 , pp. 200 - 205
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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