Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Full reference: C. W. Merriam. 1941. Fossil Turritellas from the Pacific Coast region of North America. University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 26(1):1-214
Belongs to Turritella inezana according to C. W. Merriam 1941
Sister taxa: Turritella inezana altacorona, Turritella inezana bicarina, Turritella inezana equistriata, Turritella inezana hoffmannii, Turritella inezana pertumida, Turritella inezana santana, Turritella inezana sespeensis
Type specimen: UCMP 31686, a shell. Its type locality is UCMP loc. A330, Ojai Valley, which is in a Miocene coastal sandstone in the Vaqueros Formation of California.
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (8: California collections)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence