Hartungia elegans Tomida and Nakamura 2001 (snail)

Gastropoda - Epitonioidea - Janthinidae

Full reference: S. Tomida and Y. Nakamura. 2001. A new species of Hartungia (Gastropoda: Janthinidae) from late Miocene of Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 28:217-221

Belongs to Hartungia according to S. Tomida and Y. Nakamura 2001

Sister taxon: Hartungia japonica

Type specimen: ESN2687, a shell. Its type locality is Tano, Miyazak-gun [Tano Fm], which is in a Messinian coastal siliciclastic in the Tano Formation of Japan.

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Japan (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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