Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Alternative combination: Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) himerta
Full reference: T. S. Oldroyd. 1925. The fossils of the Lower San Pedro fauna of the Nob Hill cut, San Pedro, California. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 65(2535):1-39
Belongs to Pyrgiscus according to A. Hendy 2021
See also Oldroyd 1925
Sister taxa: Pyrgiscus antestriatus, Pyrgiscus auricoma, Pyrgiscus laminatus, Pyrgiscus latifundius, Pyrgiscus moerchi, Pyrgiscus tenuiculus, Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) agrestis, Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) bravoensis, Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) hormigacuesta, Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) senistriata
Type specimen: USNM 333508. Its type locality is Nob Hill cut, San Pedro, which is in a Pleistocene marine horizon in the San Pedro Sand Formation of California.
Distribution: found only at Nob Hill cut, San Pedro
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