Onoba (Onoba) obessa Grant-Mackie and Chapman-Smith 1971 (snail)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae

Alternative combination: Subonoba (Austronoba) obessa

Full reference: J. A. Grant-Mackie and M. Chapman-Smith. 1971. Paleontological notes on the Castlecliffian Te Piki Bed, with descriptions of new Molluscan taxa. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 14(4):655-704

Belongs to Onoba (Onoba) according to A. G. Beu et al. 1990

See also Grant-Mackie and Chapman-Smith 1971

Sister taxon: Onoba (Onoba) cryptolira

Type specimen: G5891, a shell. Its type locality is N62/f585 Te Piki, Cape Runaway, which is in a Castlecliffian coastal mudstone in the Waipaoa Formation of New Zealand.

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at N62/f585 Te Piki, Cape Runaway

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