Turritella inezana altacorona Loel and Corey 1932 (turret shell)

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

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