Gastropoda - Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
Alternative combination: Globularia (Ampullinopsis) altivapicana
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
Belongs to Globularia (Ampullinopsis) according to M. W. A. Iqbal 1973
Sister taxa: Ampullina (Ampullinopsis) amphora, Ampullinopsis birmanica, Ampullinopsis crassatina, Ampullinopsis spencer, Ampullinopsis spenceri
Type specimen: BMNH G.68256, a shell. Its type locality is Fossil Bed F.1931, Rakhi Nala, which is in a Lutetian marine shale in the Baska Formation of Pakistan.
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Eocene of Pakistan (7 collections)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
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