Metula harrisi Dickerson 1916 (true whelk)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae

Alternative combination: Cumia harrisi

Full reference: R. E. Dickerson. 1916. Stratigraphy and fauna of the Tejon Eocene of California. University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology 9(17):363-524

Belongs to Metula according to R. E. Dickerson 1916

See also Vokes 1939

Sister taxa: Metula (Metula), Metula amosi, Metula brazosensis, Metula cancellata, Metula gabbi, Metula gentilicia, Metula gracilis, Metula harrisi, Metula hindsii, Metula johnsoni, Metula limonensis, Metula martini, Metula peruviana, Metula roberti, Metula subgracilis, Metula taylorensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Coco Plum, which is in a Pliocene marine siliciclastic in Panama

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at UCMP 1817, Urruttia Canyon-Salt Creek

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