Pseudoliva lutulenta Kensley and Pether 1986 (true whelk)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae

Full reference: B. Kensley and J. Pether. 1986. Late Tertiary and Early Quaternary Fossil Mollusca for the Hondeklip Area, Cape Province, South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 97(6):141-225

Belongs to Pseudoliva according to B. Kensley and J. Pether 1986

Sister taxa: Pseudoliva (Fusopsis), Pseudoliva adelkei, Pseudoliva binodosa, Pseudoliva bocaserpentis, Pseudoliva coronaria, Pseudoliva elegans, Pseudoliva funkeana, Pseudoliva guppyi, Pseudoliva inornata, Pseudoliva laudunensis, Pseudoliva leutweini, Pseudoliva modesta, Pseudoliva monilis, Pseudoliva packardi, Pseudoliva perspectiva, Pseudoliva praetermissa, Pseudoliva reticulata, Pseudoliva rogersi, Pseudoliva serrata, Pseudoliva thielei, Pseudoliva tuberculifera, Pseudoliva umpquaensis, Pseudoliva unicarinata, Pseudoliva vetusta

Type specimen: SAM-PQ-KN552, a shell. Its type locality is Koingnaas/Swartlintjies 50m Complex, which is in a Pliocene transition zone/lower shoreface mudstone in South Africa.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Koingnaas/Swartlintjies 50m Complex

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