Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Synonym: Tomyris Michailovski 1912 [replaced name]
Full reference: F. E. Eames. 1952. A contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India: C. The description of the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda from standard sections in the Rakhi Nala and Zindar Pir areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 236:1-168
Parent taxon: Pareorinae according to W. D. Allmon 1996
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Batillona, Craginia, Mesalia, Neodiastoma, Pareora, Sigmesalia, Tachyrhynchella, Woodsalia
Subtaxa: Motyris aralica Motyris pseudoaralica
Type: Turritella (Tomyris) aralica
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of Pakistan (4 collections), Poland (2)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
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