Hemisinus bituminifer Cooke 1919 (snail)

Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Thiaridae

Full reference: C. W. Cooke. 1919. Tertiary mollusks from the Leeward Islands and Cuba. Contributions to the geology and paleontology of the West Indies. Carnegie Institution of Washington 105-156

Belongs to Hemisinus according to C. W. Cooke 1919

Sister taxa: Hemisinus (Cubaedomus), Hemisinus (Longiverena), Hemisinus antiguensis, Hemisinus atriformis, Hemisinus costatus, Hemisinus jacksonius, Hemisinus kochi, Hemisinus pistati, Hemisinus septencinctus, Hemisinus siliceus, Hemisinus sulcatus, Hemisinus terebriformis

Type specimen: USNM 166993, a partial shell. Its type locality is USNM 3652, 5312, which is in a Ypresian/Bartonian coastal tar in Cuba.

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at USNM 3652, 5312

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