Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae

Alternative combination: Mitra dumosa

Full reference: T. A. Conrad. 1854. Fossil Testacea of the Tertiary green-sand and marl-bed of Jackson, Miss. Determined and named by T. A. Conrad. Report on the agriculture and geology of Mississippi 289

Belongs to Mitra (Lapparia) according to T. A. Conrad 1856

See also Conrad 1854, Harris and Palmer 1947 and Kosnik 2002

Sister taxa: Lapparia dumosa, Lapparia eomagna, Lapparia nuda

Type specimen: Its type locality is Jackson, which is in an Eocene coastal horizon in Mississippi

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Jackson

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