†Ptychosyca Gabb 1876 (true whelk)
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Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Full reference: W. M. Gabb. 1876. Notes on American Cretaceous Fossils with Descriptions of Some New Species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 28:276-324
Parent taxon: Pseudolivinae according to N. F. Sohl 1964
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Benthobia, Dorsanum, Fulmentum, Hubachia, Hydrotribulus, Luizia, Naudoliva, Popenoeum, Pseudoliva, Strepsidura, Strepturidae, Sulcoliva, Zemira
Subtaxa: Ptychosyca inornata
Type: Ptychosyca inornata
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (7: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee collections)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
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