Exilia stechesonae Squires and Stecheson 2017 (snail)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Ptychatractidae

Full reference: R. L. Squires and M. S. Stecheson. 2017. First Cretaceous record of the gastropod Exilia (Neogastropoda: Ptychatractidae) from the northeastern Pacific. The Nautilus 131(4):233-239

Belongs to Exilia according to R. L. Squires and M. S. Stecheson 2017

Sister taxa: Exilia alanbeui, Exilia attenuata, Exilia bentsonae, Exilia canalifera, Exilia clarki, Exilia contigua, Exilia crassitria, Exilia cretacea, Exilia diaboli, Exilia dickersoni, Exilia fausta, Exilia harrisi, Exilia lincolnensis, Exilia llajasensis, Exilia microptygma, Exilia ordita, Exilia ottnangensis, Exilia pergracilis, Exilia perkinsiana, Exilia plana, Exilia potreroensis, Exilia ripleyana, Exilia simiensis, Exilia taliaferroi, Exilia trifasciata, Exilia ucalia, Exilia weaveri

Type specimen: LACMIP 10715.19 (=LACMIP Type 10496), a shell. Its type locality is CIT loc. 1159, Dayton Canyon, which is in a Campanian marine siliciclastic in the Chatsworth Formation of California.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at CIT loc. 1159, Dayton Canyon

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