Amauropsis trinitatensis Mansfield 1925 (moon snail)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae

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 Amauropsis according to W. C. Mansfield 1925

Sister taxa: Amauropsis amoena, Amauropsis anderrsoni, Amauropsis aureolutea, Amauropsis caloramans, Amauropsis fetteri, Amauropsis hantkeni, Amauropsis islandica, Amauropsis jacksonensis, Amauropsis macra, Amauropsis martinezensis, Amauropsis meierensis, Amauropsis notoleptos, Amauropsis papodensis, Amauropsis sanctaecrucis, Amauropsis smithiana, Amauropsis subhybrida, Amauropsis tyrolensis, Natica (Amauropsis) japonica

Type specimen: USNM 352684, a shell. Its type locality is USGS 8299, which is in a Miocene marine siliciclastic in Trinidad and Tobago.

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at USGS 8299

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