Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
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 Ringicula according to F. E. Eames 1952
Sister taxa: Ringicula (Ringicula), Ringicula (Ringiculella), Ringicula (Ringiculina), Ringicula (Ringiculina) clarki, Ringicula (Ringiculocosta), Ringicula (Ringiculopsis), Ringicula acuta, Ringicula arctatoides, Ringicula blaszyki, Ringicula buccinea, Ringicula castigata, Ringicula celata, Ringicula clarki, Ringicula culbertsoni, Ringicula dalli, Ringicula discrepans, Ringicula dominicana, Ringicula knolli, Ringicula minor, Ringicula mississippiensis, Ringicula nuda, Ringicula semperi, Ringicula striata, Ringicula trapaquara, Ringicula trapequara, Ringicula turgida, Ringicula varia, Ringicula ventricosa, Ringicula yochelsoni, Auricula acicula, Auricula cytharella, Auricula sulcata, Auricula miliola, Auricula ovata, Auricula ringens, Auricula terebellata, Auricula miliaris, Auricula bimarginata, Auricula hordeola, Auricula conovuliformis
Type specimen: BMNH G.68409, a shell. Its type locality is Fossil Bed F.2678, Zinda Pir, which is in a Ypresian marine shale in the Ghazij Formation of Pakistan.
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Pakistan (5 collections)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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