Odostomia pakistanica Eames 1952 (snail)

Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae

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 Odostomia according to F. E. Eames 1952

Sister taxa: Odostomia (Amaura), Odostomia (Ividia), Odostomia (Megastomia), Odostomia (Menestho), Odostomia (Odostomia), Odostomia (Oscilla), Odostomia (Ravnostomia), Odostomia acrybia, Odostomia acutidens, Odostomia alexanderi, Odostomia biangulata, Odostomia concavata, Odostomia conoidea, Odostomia cotuhensis, Odostomia crassispirata, Odostomia crenulata, Odostomia cuisensis, Odostomia derivata, Odostomia diaboli, Odostomia fetella, Odostomia granulatus, Odostomia griesensis, Odostomia griswoldensis, Odostomia guajirana, Odostomia insignifica, Odostomia lignitarum, Odostomia nigeriensis, Odostomia nuttalli, Odostomia obstinata, Odostomia oxia, Odostomia packi, Odostomia pellucida, Odostomia plicata, Odostomia pupa, Odostomia reevei, Odostomia santana, Odostomia semicostata, Odostomia simillima, Odostomia simplex, Odostomia sperabilis, Odostomia talama, Odostomia talpa, Odostomia tenuis, Odostomia tenuisculpta, Odostomia turbinatus, Odostomia ventriosa, Odostomia virginalis, Odostomia winlockiana

Type specimen: BMNH G.68194, a shell. Its type locality is Fossil Bed F.2519, Zinda Pir, which is in a Bartonian marine shale in the Drazinda Formation of Pakistan.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Fossil Bed F.2519, Zinda Pir

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