Clavilithes leilanensis Vredenburg 1923 (snail)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae

Full reference: E. Vredenburg. 1923. Indian Tertiary Gastropoda, No. 5, Fusidae, Turbinellidae, Chrysodomidae, Strepturidae, Buccinidae, Nassidae, Columbellidae, with a short diagnoses of new species by the late E. Vredenburg. Records of the Geological Survey of India 55(1):52-77

Belongs to Clavilithes according to M. A. Snyder 2003

See also Vredenburg 1923

Sister taxa: Clavilithes (Clavilithes), Clavilithes (Cosmolithes), Clavilithes (Rhopalites), Clavilithes arakanensis, Clavilithes atahuallpai, Clavilithes burtti, Clavilithes cossmanni, Clavilithes dameriacensis, Clavilithes hagni, Clavilithes harrisi, Clavilithes harrisii, Clavilithes hubbardanus, Clavilithes incertus, Clavilithes inopinatus, Clavilithes lagunitensis, Clavilithes noae, Clavilithes noetlingi, Clavilithes pacificus, Clavilithes parisiensis, Clavilithes peruvianus, Clavilithes pozoensis, Clavilithes songoensis, Clavilithes tabulatus, Clavilithes tjaringinensis, Clavilithes tjidamarensis, Clavilithes woodringi, Rhopalithes bolivarensis, Clavilithes (Rhopalithes) toyei, Clavilithes (Rhopalithes) superbus, Austrolithes incompositus, Austrolithes bulbodes, Austrolithes tateanus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Unit 2, Bund Vera (Ranikot Series), India - Nuttall (1932), which is in an Eocene offshore shale in India

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Unit 2, Bund Vera (Ranikot Series), India - Nuttall (1932)

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