Gastropoda - Neritoidea - Neritidae
Full reference: A. von Koenen. 1897. Ueber Fossilien der unteren Kreide am Ufer des Mungo in Kamerun. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. Neue Folge 1:3-48
Belongs to Nerita according to W. Barber 1958
See also Riedel 1933 and von Koenen 1897
Sister taxa: Nerita (Amphinerita), Nerita (Bajanerita), Nerita (Chingua), Nerita (Linnerita), Nerita (Nerita), Nerita (Ritena), Nerita (Theliostyla), Nerita (Trochonerita), Nerita atramentosa, Nerita balteata, Nerita beali, Nerita biangulata, Nerita compacta, Nerita conoidea, Nerita cooki, Nerita costata, Nerita decorata, Nerita deformis, Nerita filosa, Nerita globosa, Nerita granulosa, Nerita hadra, Nerita helicina, Nerita klipsteini, Nerita listrota, Nerita malheiroi, Nerita mammaria, Nerita munita, Nerita oligopleura, Nerita ornata, Nerita ornata, Nerita orovillensis, Nerita oviformis, Nerita palaeomorpha, Nerita planospira, Nerita pulligera, Nerita reticulirata, Nerita rumphi, Nerita salsa, Nerita semilevis, Nerita squamulata, Nerita squatina, Nerita subgranulosa, Nerita tessellata, Nerita tricarinata, Nerita undata, Nerita versicolor, Nerita violacea, Nerita vokesi
Type specimen: Its type locality is Mungo River, between Mundame and Eliki, which is in a Turonian carbonate limestone/sandstone in the Mungo River Formation of Cameroon
Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Cameroon (3 collections), Nigeria (1)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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