Gastropoda - Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
Full reference: T. A. Conrad. 1848. Observations on the Eocene formations, and descriptions of one hundred and five new fossils from that period, from the vicinity of Vicksburg, Mississippi; with an appendix. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 3:280-299
Belongs to Scalaria according to T. A. Conrad 1848
Sister taxa: Scalaria (Psychrosoma), Scalaria (Scalaria), Scalaria albensis, Scalaria angulata, Scalaria bezanconi, Scalaria biserta, Scalaria clathrus, Scalaria crispa, Scalaria decussata, Scalaria denudata, Scalaria elegans, Scalaria elongata, Scalaria ertborni, Scalaria fallax, Scalaria fenestrata, Scalaria geniculata, Scalaria hamulifera, Scalaria lineata, Scalaria minima, Scalaria molengraaffi, Scalaria monocycla, Scalaria octolineata, Scalaria ornata, Scalaria pearlensis, Scalaria philippi, Scalaria plicata, Scalaria subulata, Scalaria torulosus, Scalaria turbinata, Scalaria varicostata
Type specimen: Its type locality is Vicksburg, which is in a Rupelian marine marl in the Byram Marl Formation of Mississippi
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Vicksburg
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