Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Full reference: G. D. Hanna and M. C. Israelsky. 1925. Contributions to the Tertiary paleontology of Peru. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 14(2):37-75
Belongs to Clavilithes according to G. D. Hanna and M. C. Israelsky 1925
Sister taxa: Clavilithes (Clavilithes), Clavilithes (Cosmolithes), Clavilithes (Rhopalites), Clavilithes arakanensis, Clavilithes burtti, Clavilithes californicus, Clavilithes cossmanni, Clavilithes dameriacensis, Clavilithes hagni, Clavilithes harrisi, Clavilithes harrisii, Clavilithes hubbardanus, Clavilithes incertus, Clavilithes inopinatus, Clavilithes lagunitensis, Clavilithes leilanensis, Clavilithes noae, Clavilithes noetlingi, Clavilithes pacificus, Clavilithes parisiensis, Clavilithes peruvianus, Clavilithes pozoensis, Clavilithes songoensis, Clavilithes tabulatus, Clavilithes tjaringinensis, Clavilithes tjidamarensis, Clavilithes woodringi, Austrolithes bulbodes, Austrolithes incompositus, Austrolithes tateanus, Rhopalithes bolivarensis, Clavilithes (Rhopalithes) toyei, Clavilithes (Rhopalithes) superbus
Type specimen: CAS 1718, a shell. Its type locality is CAS Loc. 850, Quebrada Mancora [Negritos Fm], which is in an Eocene marine horizon in the Negritos Formation of Peru.
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at CAS Loc. 339, Boca Pan [Zorritos Fm]
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