Protoma retrodilatatum Vredenburg 1928 (turret shell)

Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae

Alternative combination: Protoma retrodilatum

Full reference: E. Vredenburg. 1928. Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Gastropoda (in part) and Lamellibranchiata. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 50(2):351-506

Belongs to Protoma according to M. W. A. Iqbal 1980

See also Vredenburg 1928

Sister taxa: Protoma (Protoma), Protoma (Protomella), Protoma cathedralis, Protoma deshayesi, Protoma renevieri, Protoma rotifera, Protoma sindiense, Protoma subrenevieri

Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Miocene of Pakistan (2 collections)

• Oligocene of Pakistan (2)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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