Buccinum saundersi Martin 1914 (true whelk)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae

Full reference: B. Martin. 1914. Descriptions of new species of fossil Mollusca from the later marine Neocene of California. University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology 8(7):181-202

Belongs to Buccinum according to B. Martin 1914

Sister taxa: Buccinum aciculatum, Buccinum amoenum, Buccinum angulosum, Buccinum bistriatum, Buccinum callosum, Buccinum clavatulatum, Buccinum cyaneum, Buccinum declive, Buccinum decussatum, Buccinum digitale, Buccinum dubium, Buccinum finmarkianum, Buccinum glaciale, Buccinum humphreysianum, Buccinum jordani, Buccinum junghuhni, Buccinum laevigatum, Buccinum mississppiensis, Buccinum modestum, Buccinum nudum, Buccinum ochotense, Buccinum percrassum, Buccinum physeatum, Buccinum plectrum, Buccinum polare, Buccinum scalariforme, Buccinum striatulum, Buccinum terebrale, Buccinum undatum, Buccinum vinculum

Type specimen: Its type locality is UCMP loc1859, which is in a Pliocene coastal horizon in the Rio Dell Formation of California.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at UCMP loc. 1859

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