Frodospira cochleata

Frodospira cochleata; Temporal range: Silurian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superfamily:	†Trochonematoidea
Family:	†Lophospiridae
Genus:	†Frodospira
Species:	†F. cochleata
Binomial name
	Frodospira cochleata; (Lindström, 1884)[1]
Synonyms[2]
	Lophospira cochleata (Lindström, 1884); Murchisonia cochleata (Lindström, 1884)

Frodospira cochleata is a species of extinct sea snail in the family Lophospiridae. Fossil specimens from 422.9 and 421.3 million years ago[2] have been found in Sweden at Grogarnsberget, Hemse, and Sandarve kulle, in a hill about a kilometer north of Fardhem Church.[3] A species of epifaunal filter feeder,[2] it had a slender, turriculate shell consisting of twelve to thirteen whorls.[4]

References

"Repository "uBio NameBank"". Global Names Index. Retrieved June 17, 2014.
"Frodospira cochleata". Fossilworks. Retrieved June 17, 2014.
Manten, A. A. (1971). Silurian reefs of Gotland. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. pp. 66 & 383. ISBN 0-444-40706-5. Retrieved June 17, 2014.
Lindström, Gustaf (1881). On the Silurian Gastropoda and Pteropoda of Gotland. Stockholm: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. p. 134. Retrieved June 17, 2014.

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