Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Full reference: W. Loel and W. H. Corey. 1932. The Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene of California. I. Paleontology. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 22(3):31-410
Belongs to Turritella inezana according to C. W. Merriam 1941
See also Loel and Corey 1932
Sister taxa: Turritella inezana bicarina, Turritella inezana equistriata, Turritella inezana hoffmannii, Turritella inezana pertumida, Turritella inezana pervulgata, Turritella inezana santana, Turritella inezana sespeensis
Type specimen: UCMP 31696, a shell. Its type locality is UCMP loc. A602, Santa Ynez Mountains, which is in a Miocene coastal conglomerate in the Vaqueros Formation of California.
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (11: California collections)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence