Eosurcula capayana Vokes 1939 (turrid)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae

Full reference: H. E. Vokes. 1939. Molluscan faunas of the Domengine and Arroyo Hondo Formations of the California Eocene. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 38:1-246

Belongs to Eosurcula according to H. E. Vokes 1939

Sister taxa: Eosurcula cohni, Eosurcula inconstans, Eosurcula moorei, Eosurcula praeattenuata, Eosurcula stena

Type specimen: UCMP 15900. Its type locality is UCMP 1817, Urruttia Canyon-Salt Creek, which is in a Ypresian deep-water shale in the Lodo Formation of California.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at UCMP 1817, Urruttia Canyon-Salt Creek

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.