Charadreon leptus Woodring 1973 (snail)

Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Pachychilidae

Full reference: W. P. Woodring. 1973. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (additions to gastropods, scaphopods, pelecypods: Nuculidae to Malleidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(E):453-539

Belongs to Charadreon according to W. P. Woodring 1973

Sister taxa: Charadreon eucosmius, Charadreon glabrum, Charadreon intermedius

Type specimen: USNM 646658, a shell

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at Location 23, Rio Palenque (Gatuncillo Formation) - Woodring (1957) (Eocene of Panama)

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