Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Pyropsidae
Alternative combination: Heteroterma gabbi
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 aldersoni, Pyropsis australis, Pyropsis bairdi, Pyropsis californica, Pyropsis coloradoensis, Pyropsis cornutus, Pyropsis elongata, Pyropsis fantozzii, Pyropsis filamentosa, Pyropsis forbesiana, 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 spinosus, Pyropsis striata, Pyropsis zinsmeisteri
Type specimen: USNM 158731, a shell
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Mexico (1 collection)
• Paleocene of United States (7: California)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
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