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 Turbonilla (Chemnitzia) according to F. E. Eames 1952
Sister taxa: Chemnitzia (Eocerithium), Chemnitzia costaria, Chemnitzia curvicostata, Chemnitzia densecostata, Chemnitzia elegantior, Chemnitzia elegantissima, Chemnitzia gregaria, Chemnitzia infraliasica, Chemnitzia loxonematoides, Chemnitzia manzavinii, Chemnitzia muricata, Chemnitzia oblita, Chemnitzia paucicostata, Chemnitzia planulata, Chemnitzia quenstedti, Chemnitzia rufa, Chemnitzia solida, Chemnitzia spillmani, Chemnitzia subregularis, Chemnitzia texana, Chemnitzia undosa, Chemnitzia unica, Chemnitzia varicula, Chemnitzia vaticani, Chemnitzia zebra, Turbonilla (Chemnitzia) bartschiana, Turbonilla (Chemnitzia) gatunensis, Turbonilla (Chemnitzia) hannai, Turbonilla (Chemnitzia) ivea, Turbonilla (Chemnitzia) montiscrucis, Turbonilla (Chemnitzia) reklawensis
Type specimen: BMNH G.68201, a shell. Its type locality is Fossil Bed F.2520, 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.2520, Zinda Pir
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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