Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
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 Mesalia (Sigmesalia) according to F. E. Eames 1952
Sister taxa: Mesalia (Sigmesalia) soriensis, Sigmesalia eckiana, Sigmesalia fasciata, Sigmesalia hamiltoni, Sigmesalia incertae, Sigmesalia krachi, Sigmesalia multisulcata, Sigmesalia solida, Sigmesalia stylacris, Sigmesalia sulcata
Type specimen: BMNH G.68117, a shell. Its type locality is Fossil Bed F.1836, Rakhi Nala, which is in a Selandian marine shale in the Khadro Formation of Pakistan.
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Fossil Bed F.1836, Rakhi Nala
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