Pseudomalaxis punjabensis Eames 1952 (snail)

Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae

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 Pseudomalaxis according to F. E. Eames 1952

Sister taxa: Pseudomalaxis (Ewekorolaxis), Pseudomalaxis (Nigerialaxis), Pseudomalaxis (Platylaxis), Pseudomalaxis (Pseudomalaxis), Pseudomalaxis caceresi, Pseudomalaxis pateriformis

Type specimen: BMNH G.68132, a shell. Its type locality is Fossil Bed F.2679, Zinda Pir, which is in a Ypresian marine shale in the Ghazij Formation of Pakistan.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Fossil Bed F.2679, Zinda Pir

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