Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Alternative combinations: Mesalia sulcata, Turritella sulcata
Full reference: J. B. Lamarck. 1804. Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 4:212-222
Belongs to Sigmesalia according to Glibert 1962
See also Lamarck 1804
Sister taxa: Mesalia (Sigmesalia) rakhiensis, Mesalia (Sigmesalia) soriensis, Sigmesalia eckiana, Sigmesalia fasciata, Sigmesalia hamiltoni, Sigmesalia incertae, Sigmesalia krachi, Sigmesalia multisulcata, Sigmesalia solida, Sigmesalia stylacris
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of France (4 collections), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
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