†Bayania epelys Woodring 1973 (snail)
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Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Thiaridae
Full reference: W. P. Woodring. 1973. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (additions to gastropods, scaphopods, pelecypods: Nuculidae to Malleidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(E):453-539
Belongs to Bayania according to W. P. Woodring 1973
Sister taxa: Bayania boussaci, Bayania lactea, Bayania omanispinosa, Bayania semidecussata
Type specimen: USNM 64655, a shell
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution: found only at Location 23, Rio Palenque (Gatuncillo Formation) - Woodring (1957) (Eocene of Panama)
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