Bonellitia megapex Vokes 1939 (snail)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae

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 Bonellitia according to H. E. Vokes 1939

Sister taxa: Admete (Bonellitia) bonellii, Admete (Bonellitia) latecostata, Admete (Bonellitia) olssoni, Bonellitia (Africostoma), Bonellitia (Bonellitia), Bonellitia evulsa, Bonellitia jacksonica, Bonellitia laeviuscula, Bonellitia parilis, Bonellitia subevulsa, Cancellaria (Bonellitia) waynensis

Type specimen: UCMP 15889. Its type locality is UCMP loc. 672, Parsons Peak, which is in a Ypresian marine sandstone in the Domengine Formation of California.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at UCMP loc. 672, Parsons Peak

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