Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) bravoensis Keen 1943 (snail)

Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae

Full reference: A. M. Keen. 1943. New mollusks from the Round Mountain Silt (Temblor) Miocene of California. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 10(2):25-60

Belongs to Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) according to W.O. Addicott 1970

See also Keen 1943

Sister taxa: Pyrgiscus antestriatus, Pyrgiscus auricoma, Pyrgiscus himertus, Pyrgiscus laminatus, Pyrgiscus latifundius, Pyrgiscus moerchi, Pyrgiscus tenuiculus, Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) agrestis, Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) hormigacuesta, Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) senistriata

Type specimen: LSJU 7546. Its type locality is LSJU loc. 2121 [Round Mountain Silt], which is in a Langhian marine siltstone in the Round Mountain Formation of California.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at LSJU loc. 2121 [Round Mountain Silt]

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