Fusinus fabulator Nomland 1917 (spindle shell)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae

Full reference: J. O. Nomland. 1917. Fauna of the Santa Margarita beds in the North Coalinga region of California. University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology 10(18):293-326

Belongs to Fusinus according to J. O. Nomland 1917

Sister taxa: Fusinus (Fusinus), Fusinus (Gracilipurpura), Fusinus (Roperia), Fusinus alaquaensis, Fusinus bocarepertus, Fusinus bocaserpentis, Fusinus caboblanquensis, Fusinus closter, Fusinus coalingensis, Fusinus colubri, Fusinus colus, Fusinus dictyotis, Fusinus dilectus, Fusinus dilleri, Fusinus dupetitthouarsi, Fusinus empireensis, Fusinus empleus, Fusinus engonius, Fusinus exilis, Fusinus gesteri, Fusinus henekeni, Fusinus henicus, Fusinus hoffmani, Fusinus honensis, Fusinus longiusculoides, Fusinus macnairyensis, Fusinus magdalenensis, Fusinus markleyensis, Fusinus meganosensis, Fusinus meredithae, Fusinus merriami, Fusinus meunieri, Fusinus mohrioides, Fusinus obtentus, Fusinus patagoniensis, Fusinus pinolianus, Fusinus quilonicus, Fusinus sculptilis, Fusinus sewalliana, Fusinus simiensis, Fusinus simulans, Fusinus sirenideditus, Fusinus springvalensis, Fusinus taeniensis, Fusinus teglandae, Fusinus trentensis, Fusinus ucalius, Fusinus unicarinatus, Fusinus voetus, Fusinus vonderschmidti, Fusus (Exilifusus)

Type specimen: UCMP 11319, a partial shell. Its type locality is UCMP loc. 3029, Tejon Hills, which is in a Miocene marine sandstone in the Santa Margarita Formation of California.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at UCMP loc. 3029, Tejon Hills

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