Crucibulum alloglyptum Pilsbry and Olsson 1941 (slipper shell)

Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae

Full reference: H. A. Pilsbry and A.A. Olsson. 1941. A Pliocene fauna from Western Ecuador. Proceedings of the Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 93:1-79

Belongs to Crucibulum according to H. A. Pilsbry and A.A. Olsson 1941

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is Zone J - Canoa Formation, which is in a Piacenzian/Gelasian coastal sandstone/claystone in the Canoa Formation of Ecuador

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Zone J - Canoa Formation

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