Melanella coalingana Vokes 1939 (snail)

Gastropoda - Vanikoroidea - Eulimidae

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 Melanella according to H. E. Vokes 1939

Sister taxa: Melanella (Melanella), Melanella (Polygyreulima), Melanella acuella, Melanella arnoldi, Melanella badenia, Melanella bolivarensis, Melanella conoidea, Melanella dufresnei, Melanella eborea, Melanella fossilis, Melanella indicaformis, Melanella jacksonensis, Melanella jamaicensis, Melanella kaiparaensis, Melanella karsteni, Melanella migrans, Melanella seymourensis, Melanella thersites, Melanella waikomitica

Type specimen: UCMP 15873. 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

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