Tibia pseudomokattamensis Eames 1952 (true conch)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae

Full reference: F. E. Eames. 1952. A contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India: C. The description of the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda from standard sections in the Rakhi Nala and Zindar Pir areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 236:1-168

Belongs to Tibia according to F. E. Eames 1952

Sister taxa: Tibia (Africoterebellum), Tibia (Aulacodiscus), Tibia (Hippochrene), Tibia (Tibia), Tibia (Tibiochilus), Tibia bivarica, Tibia curta, Tibia indica, Tibia protofusus, Tibia samanaensis, Rostellaria bidigitata, Rostellaria gracilenta, Rostellaria macroptera, Rostellaria palliata, Rostellaria plurimacosta, Rostellaria cancellata, Rostellaria columbaria, Rostellaria securifera, Rostellaria detracta, Rostellaria crebricosta, Rostellaria constricta, Rostellaria (Veatchia)

Type specimen: BMNH G.68207, a shell. Its type locality is Fossil Bed F.2114, Sirki Paila, Kohat, which is in a Lutetian marine shale in the Kohat Formation of Pakistan.

Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer

Distribution:

• Eocene of Pakistan (1 collection)

• Paleocene of Pakistan (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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