Gastropoda - Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
Full reference: R. L. Squires and L. R. Saul. 2004. The pseudomelaniid gastropod Paosia from the marine Cretaceous of the Pacific Slope of North America and a review of the age and paleobiogeography of the genus. Journal of Paleontology 78(3):484-500
Belongs to Paosia according to J. W. Haggart and R. Graham 2018
Sister taxa: Paosia acuminata, Paosia calafia, Paosia californica, Paosia colusaensis, Paosia ursula
Type specimen: LACMIP 7315, a partial shell. Its type locality is LACMIP loc. 17611, along Dry Creek, near Pentz, which is in a Campanian open shallow subtidal conglomerate in the Chico Formation of California.
Ecology: epifaunal
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (2: British Columbia collections), United States (4: California)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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