Cristispira caballasensis Devries 2019 (turret shell)

Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae

Full reference: T. J. Devries. 2019. Early Paleogene brackish-water molluscs from the Caballas Formation of the East Pisco Basin (Southern Peru). Journal of Natural History 53(25-26):1533-1584

Belongs to Cristispira according to T. J. Devries 2019

Sister taxa: Cristispira cochleiformis, Cristispira paracasensis, Cristispira pugetensis

Type specimen: UWBM 107605, a shell. Its type locality is B8769, which is in a Ypresian coastal sandstone in Peru.

Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at B8769

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