Caecum properegulare Mansfield 1925 (snail)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Caecidae

Full reference: W. C. Mansfield. 1925. Miocene gastropods and scaphopods from Trinidad, British West Indies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 66(22):9116-9125

Belongs to Caecum according to W. C. Mansfield 1925

Sister taxa: Caecum (Brochina), Caecum (Caecum), Caecum (Defolinia), Caecum alterum, Caecum anellifer, Caecum armoricum, Caecum beaufortensis, Caecum californicum, Caecum calvertense, Caecum campe, Caecum chipolanum, Caecum circumvolutum, Caecum cooperi, Caecum crebricinctum, Caecum cycloferum, Caecum glabrum, Caecum greensboroense, Caecum imbricatum, Caecum johnsoni, Caecum mammillatum, Caecum mexicanum, Caecum patuxentium, Caecum plicatum, Caecum quadratum, Caecum ryssotitum, Caecum tomaculum, Caecum veracruzanum

Type specimen: USNM 352675, a shell. Its type locality is USGS 8302, which is in a Miocene marine siliciclastic in Trinidad and Tobago.

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at USGS 8302

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