Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Alternative combination: Nyctilochus sopenahensis
Full reference: C. E. Weaver. 1912. A preliminary report on the Tertiary paleontology of western Washington. Washington Geological Survey Bulletin 15:1-80
Belongs to Hemifusus according to C. E. Weaver 1912
See also Dickerson 1915 and Dickerson 1916
Sister taxa: Fusus (Hemifusus) cooperii, Hemifusus (Hemifusus), Hemifusus dalli, Hemifusus lewisiana, Hemifusus lincolnensis, Hemifusus montensis, Hemifusus tejonensis, Hemifusus waringi, Volema (Hemifusus) ternatanus
Type specimen: Its type locality is UW 1, Cowlitz Formation, which is in a Bartonian marine horizon in the Cowlitz Formation of Washington
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (9: California, Washington collections)
Total: 9 collections including 10 occurrences
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