Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Pyropsidae
Alternative combination: Heteroterma striata
Full reference: T. W. Stanton. 1896. The Faunal Relations of the Eocene and Upper Cretaceous on the Pacific Coast. Seventeenth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1895-1896: Part 1. Director's Report and Other Papers 1011-1059
Belongs to Pyropsis according to L. R. Saul 1988
See also Stanton 1896 and Zinsmeister 1983
Sister taxa: Pyropsis africana, Pyropsis alabamensis, Pyropsis aldersoni, Pyropsis australis, Pyropsis bairdi, Pyropsis californica, Pyropsis coloradoensis, Pyropsis cornutus, Pyropsis elevata, Pyropsis elongata, Pyropsis fantozzii, Pyropsis filamentosa, Pyropsis forbesiana, Pyropsis gabbi, Pyropsis grahami, Pyropsis hombroniana, Pyropsis interstriata, Pyropsis interstriatus, Pyropsis lanhami, Pyropsis louellae, Pyropsis nodifera, Pyropsis nodulifera, Pyropsis patagonica, Pyropsis perlata, Pyropsis perornatus, Pyropsis prolixa, Pyropsis proxima, Pyropsis richardsonii, Pyropsis septemlirata, Pyropsis spinosus, Pyropsis trochiformis, Pyropsis zinsmeisteri
Type specimen: USNM 157845, a shell
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of United States (6: California collections)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
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