Melanella karsteni Anderson 1928 (snail)

Gastropoda - Vanikoroidea - Eulimidae

Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1928. Notes on Lower Tertiary deposits of Colombia and their molluscan and foraminiferal fauna. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 17(1):1-29

Belongs to Melanella according to F. M. Anderson 1928

Sister taxa: Melanella (Melanella), Melanella (Polygyreulima), Melanella acuella, Melanella arnoldi, Melanella badenia, Melanella bolivarensis, Melanella coalingana, Melanella conoidea, Melanella dufresnei, Melanella eborea, Melanella fossilis, Melanella indicaformis, Melanella jacksonensis, Melanella jamaicensis, Melanella kaiparaensis, Melanella migrans, Melanella seymourensis, Melanella thersites, Melanella waikomitica

Type specimen: CAS 2722, a shell. Its type locality is San Juan de Rio Seco, which is in an Eocene marginal marine shale in Colombia.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at San Juan de Rio Seco

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