Varicospira Eames 1952 (snail)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Rostellariidae

Alternative spelling: Dientomochilus (Varicospira)

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: Rimellinae according to R. L. Squires 2013

See also Eames 1952, Harzhauser 2007, Harzhauser et al. 2009, Ladd 1972, Ladd 1982 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Dientomochilus, Strombolaria

Subtaxa: Dientomochilus (Varicospira) pakistanicus Dientomochilus (Varicospira) rakhiensis Dientomochilus (Varicospira) tenuiincisus Varicospira cancellata Varicospira crispata Varicospira gerthi Varicospira javana Varicospira longirostra Varicospira martini Varicospira mordax Varicospira narica Varicospira rembangensis Varicospira semicancellata Varicospira sindiensis Varicospira spinifera Varicospira subrimosa Varicospira zuschini

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Type: Strombus cancellatus

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Fiji (1 collection), the Philippines (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (4)

• Pliocene of Fiji (1), India (1), Indonesia (2), Papua New Guinea (1), the Philippines (3)

• Miocene of France (1), India (6), Indonesia (6), the Marshall Islands (1), Myanmar (1), Pakistan (1), Palau (1), the Philippines (1)

• Oligocene of Iran (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (3)

• Eocene of Pakistan (6)

Total: 43 collections including 53 occurrences

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