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†Sassia (Byramia) MacNeil and Dockery 1984 (triton shell)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae

Full reference: F. S. MacNeil and D. T. Dockery. 1984. Lower Oligocene Gastropoda, Scaphopoda, and Cephalopoda of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi. Mississippi Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Geology Bulletin 124:1-415

Parent taxon: Sassia according to F. S. MacNeil and D. T. Dockery 1984

See also Beu 1988 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Charonia (Sassia) angusta, Charonia (Sassia) danica, Sassia (Personella), Sassia (Sassia), Sassia africana, Sassia apenninica, Sassia armata, Sassia carlea, Sassia carmenensis, Sassia indica, Sassia kampyla, Sassia leucostomoides, Sassia lewisi, Sassia melpangi, Sassia morgani, Sassia nigeriana, Sassia nucleoides, Sassia parvula, Sassia philomelae, Sassia radialis, Sassia tatei, Sassia warreni, Austrosassia annectans, Austrosassia tortirostris, Austrosassia abbotti, Austrosassia crassicostatus, Proxicharonia palmeri, Austrotriton woodsii, Austrotriton tumulosus, Austrotriton gibbus, Austrotriton cyphus, Austrotriton textilis, Austrotriton protensus

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at USGS 13286. Upper Vicksburg (Oligocene of Mississippi)

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