Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Thiaridae

Full reference: R. E. Dickerson. 1915. Fauna of the Type Tejon: Its relation to the Cowlitz Phase of the Tejon Group of Washington. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 5(3):33-98

Belongs to Melania according to R. E. Dickerson 1915

Sister taxa: Thiara (Balanocochlis), Thiara (Plotia), Thiara (Sermyla), Thiara (Setaeara), Thiara scabra, Thiara smartsvillensis, Thiara tjemoroensis, Thiara wheatlandensis, Melania texata, Melania abbreviata, Melania polita, Melania buccinalis, Melania fettkei, Melania concentrica, Melania acutestriata, Melania plicatula, Melania clavula, Melania marginata, Melania plicata, Melania schlotheimii, Melania bullia, Melania plieningeri, Melania tenuiplica, Melania packardi, Melania hordacea, Melania dunkeri, Melania herklotsi, Melania formosa, Melania hunteri, Melania multistriata, Melania laevigata, Melania strigillata, Melania dubia, Melania canicularis, Melania tenuis, Melania partschii, Melania triticea, Melania fragilis, Melania longissima, Melania semiplicata, Melania decussata, Melania alberti, Melania inquinata, Melania nitida, Melania taylori, Melania claibornensis, Melania semistriata, Melania blainvillii, Melania miikensis, Melania obovata, Melania hoernesi

Type specimen: CAS 300. Its type locality is CAS loc. 183, Big Bend of Cowlitz River, which is in a Bartonian marine mudstone/sandstone in the Cowlitz Formation of Washington.

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at CAS loc. 183, Big Bend of Cowlitz River

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