Rostellaria gracilenta Wood 1882 (true conch)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae

Full reference: S. V. Wood. 1882. Third supplement to the Crag Mollusca comparing Testacea from the Upper Tertiaries of the east of England. Univalves and Bivalves 1-24

Belongs to Rostellaria according to S. V. Wood 1882

Sister taxa: Tibia (Africoterebellum), Tibia (Aulacodiscus), Tibia (Hippochrene), Tibia (Tibia), Tibia (Tibiochilus), Tibia bivarica, Tibia curta, Tibia indica, Tibia protofusus, Tibia pseudomokattamensis, Tibia samanaensis, Rostellaria palliata, Rostellaria crebricosta, Rostellaria plurimacosta, Rostellaria macroptera, Rostellaria cancellata, Rostellaria securifera, Rostellaria columbaria, Rostellaria constricta, Rostellaria fusiformis, Rostellaria detracta, Rostellaria bidigitata, Rostellaria (Veatchia)

Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer

Distribution: found only at Felixstowe, Suffolk [Red Crag] (Pliocene of the United Kingdom)

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