Scalaria decussata Lamarck 1804 (wentletrap)

Gastropoda - Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae

Full reference: J. B. Lamarck. 1804. Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 4:212-222

Belongs to Scalaria according to J. B. Lamarck 1822

See also Lamarck 1804

Sister taxa: Scalaria (Psychrosoma), Scalaria (Scalaria), Scalaria albensis, Scalaria angulata, Scalaria bezanconi, Scalaria biserta, Scalaria clathrus, Scalaria crispa, Scalaria denudata, Scalaria elegans, Scalaria elongata, Scalaria ertborni, Scalaria fenestrata, Scalaria geniculata, Scalaria hamulifera, Scalaria lineata, Scalaria minima, Scalaria molengraaffi, Scalaria monocycla, Scalaria octolineata, Scalaria ornata, Scalaria pearlensis, Scalaria philippi, Scalaria plicata, Scalaria subulata, Scalaria torulosus, Scalaria trigintanaria, Scalaria turbinata, Scalaria varicostata

Type specimen: Its type locality is Grignon (Defrance collection), which is in a Lutetian open shallow subtidal sandstone/sandstone in France

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Grignon (Defrance collection)

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