Calyptraea trochiformis Lamarck 1802 (slipper shell)

Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae

Synonyms: Infundibulum spinulosum Sowerby 1815, Infundibulum tuberculatum Sowerby 1815

Full reference: J. B. Lamarck. 1802. Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 1:383-391

Belongs to Calyptraea according to G. P. Deshayes 1824

See also Lamarck 1802 and Richards 1943

Sister taxa: Calyptraea (Bicatillus), Calyptraea (Calyptraea), Calyptraea (Calyptropsis), Calyptraea (Galerus), Calyptraea (Siphopatella), Calyptraea (Trochatella), Calyptraea (Turbocalyptraea), Calyptraea alta, Calyptraea centralis, Calyptraea chinensis, Calyptraea contorta, Calyptraea coreyi, Calyptraea corrugata, Calyptraea corrugata, Calyptraea costellata, Calyptraea crassa, Calyptraea diegoana, Calyptraea dunni, Calyptraea elevata, Calyptraea ewekoroensis, Calyptraea fastigiata, Calyptraea filosa, Calyptraea inornata, Calyptraea kilburni, Calyptraea laevigata, Calyptraea lamellosa, Calyptraea mamillaris, Calyptraea martini, Calyptraea nigeriensis, Calyptraea nigeriensis, Calyptraea pileus, Calyptraea placuna, Calyptraea ramsisi, Calyptraea rugosa, Calyptraea sookensis, Calyptraea sorachiensis, Calyptraea subtabulata, Calyptraea undulata

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Chile (4 collections)

• Neogene of Chile (1)

• Eocene of France (7)

Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence

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