Leucosyrinx xenica Woodring 1970 (snail)

Gastropoda - Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae

Full reference: W. P. Woodring. 1970. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(D):299-452

Belongs to Leucosyrinx according to W. P. Woodring 1970

Sister taxa: Leucosyrinx chloris, Leucosyrinx clallamensis, Leucosyrinx fijiensis, Leucosyrinx nicoya, Leucosyrinx rugata, Leucosyrinx verrillii

Type specimen: USNM 645768, a shell

Ecology: epifaunal

Distribution: found only at Woodring Loc. 185 - western area [upper Gatun Fm] (Miocene of Panama)

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