Sigmesalia multisulcata Lamarck 1804 (turret shell)

Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae

Alternative combination: Turritella multisulcata

Full reference: J. B. Lamarck. 1804. Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 4:212-222

Belongs to Sigmesalia according to J. Le Renard 1992

See also Lamarck 1804

Sister taxa: Mesalia (Sigmesalia) rakhiensis, Mesalia (Sigmesalia) soriensis, Sigmesalia eckiana, Sigmesalia fasciata, Sigmesalia hamiltoni, Sigmesalia incertae, Sigmesalia krachi, Sigmesalia solida, Sigmesalia stylacris, Sigmesalia sulcata

Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Eocene of France (12 collections), the United Kingdom (2)

Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence

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