Haloceras maxwelli Beu and Marshall 2011 (snail)

Gastropoda - Vanikoroidea - Haloceratidae

Full reference: A. G. Beu and B. A. Marshall. 2011. New Cenozoic records of genera and families from New Zealand (Mollusca, Gastropoda): highlights from Phillip Maxwell’s collection. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 54(1):13-34

Belongs to Haloceras according to A. G. Beu and B. A. Marshall 2011

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NMNZ M.284527, a shell. Its type locality is Left bank 10-30m upstream to 5-15m downstream from Evans Crossing, Pareora River, which is in a Bortonian deep-water sandstone/siltstone in the Waihao Greensand Formation of New Zealand.

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at Left bank 10-30m upstream to 5-15m downstream from Evans Crossing, Pareora River

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