Delphinula calcar Lamarck 1804 (snail)

Gastropoda - Trochoidea - Turbinidae

Full reference: J. B. Lamarck. 1804. Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 4:105-115

Belongs to Delphinula according to J. B. Lamarck 1822

See also Defrance 1818 and Lamarck 1804

Sister taxa: Angaria (Angaria), Angaria (Pseudoninella), Angaria calvii, Angaria cingulata, Angaria coronata, Angaria crassa, Angaria pakistanica, Angaria scobina, Angaria sphaerula, Delphinula spiralis, Delphinula canalifera, Delphinula spirorbis, Delphinula laevigata, Delphinula sulcata, Delphinula varia, Delphinula turbinoides, Delphinula plana, Delphinula gervilii, Delphinula delphinus, Delphinula infundibulata, Delphinula laciniata, Delphinula lima, Delphinula striata, Delphinula warnii

Type specimen: Its type locality is Grignon (Lamarck collection), which is in a Lutetian open shallow subtidal sandstone/sandstone in France

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Eocene of France (2 collections), Romania (3)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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