Austrosphaera Camacho 1949 (true whelk)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae

Synonym: Seymourosphaera Oleinik and Zinsmeister 1996

Parent taxon: Pseudolivinae according to J. D. Stilwell et al. 2004

See also Bandel and Dockery 2012, Griffin and Hünicken 1994, Sepkoski 2002 and Vermeij 1998

Sister taxa: Benthobia, Dorsanum, Fulmentum, Hubachia, Hydrotribulus, Luizia, Naudoliva, Popenoeum, Pseudoliva, Ptychosyca, Strepsidura, Strepturidae, Sulcoliva, Zemira

Subtaxa: Seymourosphaera bulloides Seymourosphaera depressa Seymourosphaera elevata Seymourosphaera subglobosa

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Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Paleocene of Antarctica (21 collections), Argentina (1)

Total: 22 collections including 26 occurrences

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