Marginella (Prunum) pseudoorientalis Eames 1952 (margin shell)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae

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 Marginella (Prunum) according to F. E. Eames 1952

Sister taxa: Marginella (Prunum) circumvittata, Marginella (Prunum) soriensis, Marginella (Prunum) tegalensis, Marginella (Prunum) unistriata, Prunum (Egouana), Prunum (Microspira), Prunum (Prunum), Prunum (Prunum) dallianum, Prunum amabile, Prunum amina, Prunum apicinum, Prunum aurora, Prunum calypsonis, Prunum carmenguiterrezae, Prunum christineladdae, Prunum circumvittatum, Prunum colinensis, Prunum coniforme, Prunum dasum, Prunum domingoense, Prunum eleutheria, Prunum gatunense, Prunum gibsonsmithi, Prunum gibsonsmithorum, Prunum jessicae, Prunum latissimum, Prunum limatulum, Prunum limonensis, Prunum lipara, Prunum macneili, Prunum mauryense, Prunum nivosum, Prunum pruinosum, Prunum prunum, Prunum quirosense, Prunum roscidum, Prunum sandrae, Prunum springvalensis, Prunum suteri, Prunum willcoxianum

Type specimen: BMNH G.68339, a shell. Its type locality is Fossil Bed F.1967, Rakhi Nala, which is in a Lutetian marine shale in the Domanda Formation of Pakistan.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of Pakistan (5 collections)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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