Protoma subrenevieri Vredenburg 1928 (turret shell)

Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae

Full reference: E. Vredenburg. 1928. Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Gastropoda (in part) and Lamellibranchiata. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 50(2):351-506

Belongs to Protoma according to M. Harzhauser et al. 2009

See also Iqbal 1980 and Vredenburg 1928

Sister taxa: Protoma (Protoma), Protoma (Protomella), Protoma cathedralis, Protoma deshayesi, Protoma renevieri, Protoma retrodilatatum, Protoma rotifera, Protoma sindiense

Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Miocene of India (1 collection)

• Oligocene of Pakistan (4)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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