Cymatophos turbacoensis Anderson 1929 (true whelk)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae

Alternative combination: Phos turbacoensis

Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1929. Marine Miocene and related deposits of North Colombia. Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences 18(4):73-213

Belongs to Cymatophos according to A. J. W. Hendy et al. 2008

See also Anderson 1929 and Barrios 1960

Sister taxa: Cymatophos acolus, Cymatophos beteyensis, Cymatophos crassus, Cymatophos galerus, Cymatophos glareosus, Cymatophos hodsoni, Cymatophos paraguanensis, Cymatophos semicostatus, Cymatophos subsemicostatus, Cymatophos tuberaensis, Cymatophos veatchi

Type specimen: CAS 4654, a shell. Its type locality is CAS Loc. 305, Turbaco, near [Tubará Fm], which is in a Miocene marine siliciclastic in the Tubará Formation of Colombia.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at CAS Loc. 305, Turbaco, near [Tubará Fm]

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