Perse washingtoniana Weaver 1912 (snail)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae

Alternative combinations: Hemifusus washingtoniana, Nyctilochus washingtoniana, Whitneyella washingtoniana

Full reference: C. E. Weaver. 1912. A preliminary report on the Tertiary paleontology of western Washington. Washington Geological Survey Bulletin 15:1-80

Belongs to Perse according to E. J. Moore 1976

See also Clark 1938, Dickerson 1916 and Weaver 1912

Sister taxa: Perse corrugatum, Perse markleyensis, Perse olympicensis, Perse pittsburgensis, Perse teglandae, Perse tuberculatum, Whitneyella coosensis, Whitneyella meganosensis, Whitneyella martinez, Whitneyella gabbi, Whitneyella oregonensis, Fusus martinezensis, Whitneyella sinuata

Type specimen: Its type locality is UW 1, Cowlitz Formation, which is in a Bartonian marine horizon in the Cowlitz Formation of Washington

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (9: California, Washington collections)

Total: 9 collections including 11 occurrences

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