Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
Alternative combinations: Bathygalea (Miogalea) hadra, Phalium (Echinophoria) hadrum
Invalid subtaxa: Bathygalea (Miogalea) dalli Anderson 1929 [replaced name], Cassis (Phalium) dalli Anderson 1929 [replaced name], Phalium (Echinophoria) andersoni Abbott 1968
Belongs to Echinophoria according to A. G. Beu 2010
See also Anderson 1929, Beu 2008 and Hendy et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Echinophoria bituberculosa, Echinophoria caelatura, Echinophoria carnosa, Echinophoria coronadoi, Echinophoria dalli, Echinophoria etchuensis, Echinophoria famulans, Echinophoria fax, Echinophoria intermedium, Echinophoria pilsbryi, Echinophoria pollens, Echinophoria trituberculata, Echinophoria woodringi, Echinophoria wyvillei, Bathygalea (Bathygalea), Euspinacassis muricata
Type specimens:
- Echinophoria hadra: USNM 562268, a shell
- Bathygalea (Miogalea) dalli: CAS 4649, a shell. Its type locality is CAS Loc. 267 (horizon L), Tuberá Mtn [Los Perdices Shale], which is in a Miocene marine shale in the Los Perdices Shale Formation of Colombia.
- Phalium (Echinophoria) andersoni:
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Panama (3 collections), Venezuela (2)
• Miocene of Colombia (3), the Dominican Republic (1), Panama (15), Venezuela (1)
Total: 25 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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