Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Alternative combination: Zonaria (Zonaria) frassinettii
Full reference: L. T. Groves and S. N. Nielsen. 2003. A New Late Miocene Zonaria (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) from Central Chile. The Veliger 46(4):351-354
Belongs to Pseudozonaria according to B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva 2010
Sister taxa: Pseudozonaria aequinoctialis, Pseudozonaria annettae, Pseudozonaria arabicula, Pseudozonaria cathyae, Pseudozonaria falconensis, Pseudozonaria fehsei, Pseudozonaria frassinetti, Pseudozonaria nigropunctata, Pseudozonaria portelli, Pseudozonaria praeaequinoctialis, Pseudozonaria primarobertsi, Pseudozonaria raymondrobertsi, Pseudozonaria robertsi, Pseudozonaria telembiensis, Zonaria (Pseudozonaria) cathyae
Type specimen: Holotype SGOPI.4972, a shell. Its type locality is SGOPI loc. 031282, 1 km north of Matanzas, Cardenal Caro Province, which is in a Tortonian foreshore sandstone in the Navidad Formation of Chile.
Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer
Distribution: found only at SGOPI loc. 031282, 1 km north of Matanzas, Cardenal Caro Province
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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