Calophos golfoyaquensis Maury 1917 (snail)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae

Alternative combinations: Phos golfoyaquensis, Tritia golfoyaquensis

Full reference: C. J. Maury. 1917. Santo Domingo type sections and fossils. Bulletins of American Paleontology 5(30):1-43

Belongs to Calophos according to B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva 2010

See also Maury 1917 and Woodring 1964

Sister taxa: Calophos ectyphus, Calophos inornatus, Calophos plicatilis, Calophos rohri, Calophos wilsoni

Type specimen: Holotype (no number), a shell

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Cercado de Mao - Bluff No. 3 [Cercado Fm] (Miocene of Dominican Republic)

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