Crucibulum lawrencei Ward and Blackwelder 1987 (slipper shell)

Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae

Full reference: L. W. Ward and B.W. Blackwelder. 1987. Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 61:113-283

Belongs to Crucibulum according to L. W. Ward and B.W. Blackwelder 1987

Sister taxa: Crucibulum (Crucibulum), Crucibulum (Crucibulum) piliferum, Crucibulum (Dispotaea), Crucibulum alloglyptum, Crucibulum fausta, Crucibulum multilineatum, Crucibulum planum, Crucibulum scutellata, Crucibulum spinosum, Crucibulum subsutum

Type specimen: USNM 204061

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Section 5 (Chowan River Fm) - Lee Creek Mine (Pliocene of North Carolina)

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