Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Alternative combinations: Palmerella ranikoti, Turritella ranikoti
Synonyms: Turritella (Torculoidella) angulata Sowerby 1840, Turritella angulata Sowerby 1840, Turritella simplex Jenkins 1864, Zaria angulata Sowerby 1840
Belongs to Kapalmerella according to W. D. Warren 2005
See also Cox 1930, Cox 1936, Halder and Sinha 2014, Harzhauser et al. 2009, Martin 1879, Mukerjee 1939, Shuto 1974, Tiwari and Kachhara 2003, van den Hoek Ostende et al. 2002, Vredenburg 1921, Vredenburg 1921 and Vredenburg 1928
Sister taxa: Kapalmerella alveata, Kapalmerella arenicola, Kapalmerella dumblei, Kapalmerella mortoni, Kapalmerella pleboides
Subtaxa: Zaria angulata djadjariensis
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Pliocene of India (1 collection), Indonesia (14), Iran (1), Pakistan (3)
• Miocene of India (5), Indonesia (4), Iran (1), Myanmar (1), Pakistan (6), South Africa (1)
• Oligocene of India (1), Myanmar (1)
• Eocene of Egypt (1), India (2)
• Paleocene of Egypt (1), Pakistan (2)
Total: 45 collections including 48 occurrences
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