Acteonella anchietai Choffat 1888 (snail)

Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonellidae

Full reference: P. Choffat. 1888. Description des fossiles crétaciques, mollusques, in Matériaux pour l'étude stratigraphique et paléontologique de la province d'Angola. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 30(2):61-95

Belongs to Acteonella according to P. Choffat 1888

Sister taxa: Actaeonella borneensis, Actaeonella briggsi, Actaeonella browni, Actaeonella cincta, Actaeonella coquiensis, Actaeonella cubensis, Actaeonella delgadoi, Actaeonella fusiformis, Actaeonella gigantea, Actaeonella jicarensis, Actaeonella lucianoi, Actaeonella marchmontensis, Actaeonella oviformis, Actaeonella parvus, Actaeonella pecosensis, Actaeonella pompei, Actaeonella robinsoni, Actaeonella silvai, Actaeonella tamandarensis, Acteonella frazierensis, Acteonella gracilis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Dombe-Grande (couches à Acteonella anchietai), which is in a Cenomanian marine sandstone in the Coporolo Formation of Angola

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Dombe-Grande (couches à Acteonella anchietai)

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