Turricula praepromensis Eames 1952 (snail)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clavatulidae

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 Turricula according to F. E. Eames 1952

Sister taxa: Turricula (Crenaturricula), Turricula (Leptosurcula), Turricula (Turricula), Turricula beanensis, Turricula bremertonensis, Turricula bulwaldana, Turricula burroensis, Turricula calafia, Turricula cooperi, Turricula emerita, Turricula eolavinia, Turricula esdailei, Turricula excelsa, Turricula flammea, Turricula fluctuosa, Turricula hanguensis, Turricula haydeni, Turricula kayalensis, Turricula keaseyensis, Turricula mclellani, Turricula nelliae, Turricula ochsneri, Turricula piercei, Turricula plutonica, Turricula promensis, Turricula rossellae, Turricula sethuramae, Turricula spuria, Turricula taurina, Turricula terryi, Turricula thangaensis, Turricula tornata, Turricula waringi, Turricula washingtoniana, Surcula africana, Surcula culleni, Surcula andersoni, Surcula cowlitzensis, Surcula holwayi, Turricula (Surcula) steinbacherae, Surcula labiata, Surcula karenaica, Surcula marylandica, Surcula sullana, Surcula wateleti, Surcula mayi, Surcula polyappellatia, Surcula iravadica, Surcula riomaonis, Surcula evermanni, Surcula coaequalis, Surcula birmanica, Surcula merriami, Surcula thompsoni, Surcula washingtoniana, Surcula binotata, Surcula clarki, Surcula decipiens, Surcula piura, Surcula fairbanksi, Surcula uvasana, Surcula ingens

Type specimen: BMNH G.68378, a shell. Its type locality is Fossil Bed F.1986, Rakhi Nala, which is in a Bartonian marine shale in the Drazinda Formation of Pakistan.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of Pakistan (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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