Terebralia susana Squires and Kennedy 1998 (horn snail)

Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Potamididae

Full reference: R. L. Squires and G. L. Kennedy. 1998. Additions to the Late Paleocene Molluscan Fauna from the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County. Southern California. The Veliger 41(2):157-171

Belongs to Terebralia according to R. L. Squires and G. L. Kennedy 1998

Sister taxa: Terebralia (Gravesicerithium), Terebralia (Terebralia), Terebralia bidentata, Terebralia dentilabris, Terebralia dimorpha, Terebralia gajensis, Terebralia harrisi, Terebralia juliana, Terebralia marki, Terebralia mekranica, Terebralia miosulcata, Terebralia palustris, Terebralia pauli, Terebralia semistriatus, Terebralia subcorrugata, Terebralia sublignitarum, Terebralia sulcata

Type specimen: LACMIP 7942, a shell. Its type locality is LACMIP loc. 26814, Quarry Canyon, which is in a Thanetian coastal siltstone/limestone in the Santa Susana Formation of California.

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at LACMIP loc. 26814, Quarry Canyon

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