Zeacolpus bartoni Darragh and Kendrick 2008 (turret shell)

Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae

Full reference: T. A. Darragh and G. W. Kendrick. 2008. Silicified Eocene molluscs from the Lower Murchison district, southern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 24:217-246

Belongs to Zeacolpus according to T. A. Darragh and G. W. Kendrick 2008

See also Darragh 2017

Sister taxa: Zeacolpus (Leptocolpus), Zeacolpus (Stiracolpus), Zeacolpus (Zeacolpus), Zeacolpus chattonensis, Zeacolpus pukeuriensis

Type specimen: WAM 07.4, a shell. Its type locality is Kalbarri (Darragh/Kendrick collection), which is in a Bartonian/Priabonian transition zone/lower shoreface mudstone/sandstone in Australia.

Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Eocene of Australia (6 collections)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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