Zonaria (Zonaria) frassinetti Groves and Nielsen 2003 (cowry)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae

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 Zonaria (Zonaria) according to L. T. Groves and S. N. Nielsen 2003

See also Landau and Groves 2011, Landau and Marques da Silva 2010 and Nielsen 2005

Sister taxa: Zonaria (Zonaria) pittorum, Zonaria (Zonaria) pyrum

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: there are no occurrences of Zonaria (Zonaria) frassinetti in the database

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