Misifulgur dockeryi DeVries 2016 (true whelk)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae

Full reference: T. J. DeVries. 2016. Latest Oligocene and Miocene whelks (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Buccinidae) from Peru. The Nautilus 130(3):101-115

Belongs to Misifulgur according to T. J. DeVries 2016

Sister taxa: Misifulgur macneili, Misifulgur montemarensis

Type specimen: MGS 1227, a shell. Its type locality is MGS 115, which is in a Rupelian marine marl in the Byram Formation of Mississippi.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at MGS 115

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