Solarium costulatum Ponzi 1876 (top snail)

Gastropoda - Trochoidea - Trochidae

Full reference: G. Ponzi. 1876. I fossile del Monte Vaticano. Atti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Serie Seconda 3(2):925-959

Belongs to Solarium according to G. Ponzi 1876

Sister taxa: Solarium ammonites, Solarium amphitermum, Solarium arnense, Solarium bicornatum, Solarium canaliculatum, Solarium compressum, Solarium cotswoldiae, Solarium elaboratum, Solarium javanum, Solarium lartetianum, Solarium lorenzoensis, Solarium nelsoni, Solarium ornatum, Solarium patellatum, Solarium patulum, Solarium plicatum, Solarium rugosum, Solarium stephanephorum, Solarium sulcatum, Solarium trilineatum, Solarium triliraium, Solarium wallalense

Type specimen: Its type locality is Cava Vannutelli quarry, Monte Vaticano, which is in a Zanclean deep-water marl in the Monte Vaticano Formation of Holy See (Vatican City State)

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at Cava Vannutelli quarry, Monte Vaticano

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