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, Proxicharonia palmeri, Austrotriton textilis, Austrotriton tumulosus, Austrotriton protensus, Austrotriton gibbus, Austrotriton cyphus, Austrotriton woodsii, Austrosassia abbotti, Austrosassia tortirostris, Austrosassia annectans, Austrosassia crassicostatus
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at USGS 13286. Upper Vicksburg (Oligocene of Mississippi)