Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
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 Turris (Gemmula) according to F. E. Eames 1952
Sister taxa: Gemmula (Coronia), Gemmula (Coroniopsis), Gemmula (Gemmula), Gemmula (Pinguigemmula), Gemmula abacta, Gemmula alazana, Gemmula amica, Gemmula bentsonae, Gemmula congener, Gemmula crenulata, Gemmula cretacea, Gemmula diabloensis, Gemmula encinalis, Gemmula fasteni, Gemmula gajensis, Gemmula guindana, Gemmula hindsiana, Gemmula imitatrix, Gemmula machapoorensis, Gemmula macrobia, Gemmula mekranica, Gemmula mexa, Gemmula monerma, Gemmula plebeia, Gemmula plentopsis, Gemmula rockcreekensis, Gemmula sindiensis, Gemmula tumata, Gemmula vaningeni, Gemmula violeta, Gemmula wattsi, Turris (Gemmula) birmanica, Turris (Gemmula) pakistanica, Turris (Gemmula) thyrsus, Pleurotoma (Hemipleurotoma) calvertensis, Hemipleurotoma arenosa, Hemipleurotoma bonneti, Pleurotoma (Hemipleurotoma) juvavica, Pleurotoma (Hemipleurotoma) yenanensis, Hemipleurotoma bhagothorensis, Pleurotoma (Hemipleurotoma) iris, Hemipleurotoma narica, Hemipleurotoma oostinghi, Pleurotoma (Hemipleurotoma) singuensis, Pleurotoma (Hemipleurotoma) bellacrenata, Pleurotoma (Hemipleurotoma) humilis, Pleurotoma (Hemipleurotoma) choptankensis, Pleurotoma (Hemipleurotoma) kroisbachensis
Type specimen: BMNH G.68369, 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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