Gazameda septifraga Tate 1893 (turret shell)

Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae

Alternative combination: Turritella septifraga

Full reference: R. Tate. 1893. The gastropods of the Older Tertiary of Australia (Part 4). Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 17:316-345

Belongs to Gazameda according to T. A. Darragh 1970

See also Tate 1893

Sister taxa: Gazameda acricula, Gazameda alba, Gazameda declivis, Gazameda decoramen, Gazameda gunnii, Gazameda iredalei, Gazameda subacricula, Gazameda tasmanica

Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Bird Rock Bluff (inc. Juc Juc and Puebla Fm) (Miocene of Australia)

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