Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Parent taxon: Turritellinae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005
See also Allmon 1996, Beu et al. 1990, Darragh 2017, Sepkoski 2002 and Wilson 1993
Sister taxa: Archimediella, Banzarecolpus, Callostracum, Coeloconica, Colposigma, Colpospira, Gazameda, Hataiella, Idaella, Maoricolpus, Neohaustator, Nipponocolpus, Oligodia, Reymentella, Sechuritella, Spirocolpus, Tachyrhynchus, Torquesia, Tropicolpus, Turritella, Wyatella, Wyattella, Zaria, Kamchatkella, Armatus
Subtaxa: Zeacolpus (Leptocolpus) Zeacolpus (Stiracolpus) Zeacolpus (Zeacolpus) Zeacolpus bartoni Zeacolpus chattonensis Zeacolpus pukeuriensis
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of New Zealand (1 collection)
• Pliocene of New Zealand (2)
• Miocene of New Zealand (13)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (9)
• Eocene of Australia (6), New Zealand (21), Pakistan (10)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Pakistan (1)
• Paleocene of New Zealand (11)
Total: 74 collections including 85 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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