Cantharus gilberti Moody 1916 (true whelk)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae

Alternative combination: Siphonalia gilberti

Full reference: C. L. Moody. 1916. Fauna of the Fernando of Los Angeles. University of California, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 10(4):39-62

Belongs to Cantharus according to L. N. Waterfall 1929

See also Moody 1916

Sister taxa: Cantharus (Cantharus), Cantharus (Endopachychilus), Cantharus (Eocantharus), Cantharus (Pollia), Cantharus (Zeapollia), Cantharus andoi, Cantharus arnoldi, Cantharus ashleyi, Cantharus breaensis, Cantharus brongniartianus, Cantharus bucklandi, Cantharus cowlitzensis, Cantharus elsmerensis, Cantharus erythrostoma, Cantharus lugubris, Cantharus luliana, Cantharus martiniana, Cantharus occidentalis, Cantharus perrini, Cantharus polygona, Cantharus tranquebaricus, Cantharus varicosus, Cantharus variegatus, Tritonidea (Cantharus) speciosa

Type specimen: UCMP 11077, a shell. Its type locality is UCMP 3030, Fourth and Hill Streets, Los Angeles, which is in a Piacenzian marine claystone in the Fernando Formation of California.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at UCMP 3030, Fourth and Hill Streets, Los Angeles

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