Anachis watsonae Keen 1943 (snail)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae

Alternative combination: Anachis (Costoanachis) watsonae

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 Anachis according to A. M. Keen 1943

See also Addicott 1970

Sister taxa: Anachis (Alia), Anachis (Costoanachis), Anachis (Suturoglypta), Anachis (Zafra), Anachis guaica, Anachis haueri, Anachis minuta, Anachis miser

Type specimen: LSJU 7530. 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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