Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Full reference: F. M. Anderson and G. D. Hanna. 1925. Fauna and stratigraphic relations of the Tejon Eocene at the type locality in Kern County, California. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 11:1-249
Belongs to Marginella according to F. M. Anderson and G. D. Hanna 1925
Sister taxa: Marginella (Cypraeolina), Marginella (Marginella), Marginella (Nudifaba), Marginella (Stazzania), Marginella ballista, Marginella brassoensis, Marginella bruchardi, Marginella bulbrooki, Marginella caerulescens, Marginella calvertensis, Marginella capensis, Marginella cordiformis, Marginella culleni, Marginella cypraeaeformis, Marginella dalli, Marginella dalliana, Marginella dariensis, Marginella denticulata, Marginella dentifera, Marginella eburnea, Marginella elevata, Marginella faba, Marginella glabella, Marginella guaica, Marginella guppyana, Marginella halensis, Marginella hematita, Marginella hispaniolana, Marginella instabilata, Marginella latior, Marginella macdonaldi, Marginella majuscula, Marginella mala, Marginella maoensis, Marginella martini, Marginella mindiensis, Marginella minuta, Marginella multifilosa, Marginella musacina, Marginella nipponica, Marginella ovata, Marginella ovulata, Marginella pemphix, Marginella pulchra, Marginella quinqueplicata, Marginella semen, Marginella shepardae, Marginella silabra, Marginella silicifluvia, Marginella simplicissima, Marginella singuensis, Marginella solitaria, Marginella sowerbyi, Marginella varia
Type specimen: CAS 968. Its type locality is CAS 711, Grapevine Canyon, which is in a Lutetian marine sandstone in the Tejon Formation of California.
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at CAS 711, Grapevine Canyon
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