Typhis (Talityphis) lampada Keen 1943 (murex snail)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

Full reference: A. M. Keen. 1943. New mollusks from the Round Mountain Silt (Temblor) Miocene of California. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 10(2):25-60

Belongs to Typhis (Talityphis) according to W.O. Addicott 1970

See also Keen 1943

Sister taxa: Typhina alata, Typhina belcheri, Typhina disjunctus, Typhina expansa, Typhina laciniatus, Typhina obesa, Typhis (Typhina) mississippiensis, Typhis (Typhina) palmerae, Typhis (Talityphis) puertoricensis, Typhis (Talityphis) olssoni, Typhis (Talityphis) eucteanus, Typhis (Talityphis) precursor, Typhis (Talityphis) carmenae, Typhis (Talityphis) siphon, Typhis (Talityphis) pterinus

Type specimen: LSJU 2121. Its type locality is LSJU loc. 2121 [Round Mountain Silt], which is in a Langhian marine siltstone in the Round Mountain Formation of California.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at LSJU loc. 2121 [Round Mountain Silt]

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