Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Alternative spelling: Mesalia (Sigmesalia)
Parent taxon: Pareorinae according to W. D. Allmon 1996
See also Eames 1952 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Batillona, Craginia, Mesalia, Motyris, Neodiastoma, Pareora, Tachyrhynchella, Woodsalia
Subtaxa: Mesalia (Sigmesalia) rakhiensis Mesalia (Sigmesalia) soriensis Sigmesalia eckiana Sigmesalia fasciata Sigmesalia hamiltoni Sigmesalia incertae Sigmesalia krachi Sigmesalia multisulcata Sigmesalia solida Sigmesalia stylacris Sigmesalia sulcata
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of Belgium (2 collections), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2), Egypt (1), France (18), Italy (1), Pakistan (28), Poland (1), Romania (4), Spain (63), the United Kingdom (5)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Belgium (1), France (1), Niger (1), Pakistan (3), Poland (1), United States (1: Maryland)
Total: 134 collections including 168 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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