†Omalaxis bifrons Lamarck 1804 (turret shell)
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Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Alternative combination: Solarium bifrons
Full reference: J. B. Lamarck. 1804. Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 4:46-55
Belongs to Omalaxis according to M. M. Glibert 1962
See also Lamarck 1804
Sister taxa: Omalaxis disjunctum, Omalaxis planorbis
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of France (8 collections), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
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