Angaria pakistanica Eames 1952 (snail)

Gastropoda - Trochoidea - Turbinidae

Full reference: F. E. Eames. 1952. A contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India: C. The description of the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda from standard sections in the Rakhi Nala and Zindar Pir areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 236:1-168

Belongs to Angaria according to F. E. Eames 1952

Sister taxa: Angaria (Angaria), Angaria (Pseudoninella), Angaria calvii, Angaria cingulata, Angaria coronata, Angaria crassa, Angaria scobina, Angaria sphaerula, Delphinula spirorbis, Delphinula varia, Delphinula lima, Delphinula sulcata, Delphinula turbinoides, Delphinula calcar, Delphinula canalifera, Delphinula plana, Delphinula striata, Delphinula gervilii, Delphinula warnii, Delphinula delphinus, Delphinula spiralis, Delphinula laciniata, Delphinula infundibulata, Delphinula laevigata

Type specimen: BMNH G.68027, a shell. Its type locality is Fossil Bed F.2104, Gada Khel, Kohat, which is in a Ypresian carbonate limestone in the Shekhan Formation of Pakistan.

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at Fossil Bed F.2104, Gada Khel, Kohat

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