Nerinea capelloi Choffat 1888 (snail)

Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Nerineidae

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 Nerinea according to M. R. Cooper 1982

See also Choffat 1888

Sister taxa: Nerinea (Plesioptygmatis), Nerinea desvoidyi, Nerinea gachupinae, Nerinea somaliensis, Nerinea stewarti, Nerinea thompsonensis, Nerinea timorensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Dombe-Grande (couches à Nerinea capelloi), which is in an Albian marine sandstone in Angola

Ecology: epifaunal

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Angola (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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