Palmerella kutchensis Halder and Sinha 2014 (turret shell)

Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae

Full reference: K. Halder and P. Sinha. 2014. Some Eocene Cerithioids (Gastropoda, Mollusca) from Kutch, Western India, and Their Bearing on Palaeobiogeography of the Indian Subcontinent. Paleontology Journal

Belongs to Palmerella according to K. Halder and P. Sinha 2014

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Harudi village, which is in a Lutetian shallow subtidal shale in the Harudi Formation of India

Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Harudi village

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