Nassaria birmanica Vredenburg 1921 (snail)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae

Alternative combination: Hindsia birmanica

Full reference: E. Vredenburg. 1921. Results of a revision of some portions of Dr Noetling's second monograph on the Tertiary fauna of Burma. Records of the Geological Survey of India 51:224-302

Belongs to Nassaria according to P. N. Mukerjee 1939

See also Tiwari and Kachhara 2003

Sister taxa: Nassaria (Microfusus), Nassaria (Nassaria), Nassaria javana, Nassaria neacolubrinus, Nassaria nivea, Nassaria punjabensis, Nassaria tambaccana

Type specimen: Its type locality is Minbu (Sitsayan stage), which is in a Rupelian marine horizon in the Sitsayan Formation of Myanmar

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of India (3 collections)

• Oligocene of Myanmar (1)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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