Turritella inezana santana 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 altacorona, Turritella inezana bicarina, Turritella inezana equistriata, Turritella inezana hoffmannii, Turritella inezana pertumida, Turritella inezana pervulgata, Turritella inezana sespeensis

Type specimen: UCMP 31691, a shell. Its type locality is UCMP Loc. 6128, Arroyo Trabuco, Santa Ana Mountains, 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 (7: California collections)

Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence

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