Pseudoliva funkeana Adegoke 1977 (true whelk)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae

Full reference: O. S. Adegoke. 1977. Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Ewekoro Formation (Paleocene) of Southwestern Nigeria. Bulletins of American Paleontology 71(295):1-379

Belongs to Pseudoliva according to O. S. Adegoke 1977

Sister taxa: Pseudoliva (Fusopsis), Pseudoliva adelkei, Pseudoliva binodosa, Pseudoliva bocaserpentis, Pseudoliva coronaria, Pseudoliva elegans, Pseudoliva guppyi, Pseudoliva inornata, Pseudoliva laudunensis, Pseudoliva leutweini, Pseudoliva lutulenta, Pseudoliva modesta, Pseudoliva monilis, Pseudoliva packardi, Pseudoliva perspectiva, Pseudoliva praetermissa, Pseudoliva reticulata, Pseudoliva rogersi, Pseudoliva serrata, Pseudoliva thielei, Pseudoliva tuberculifera, Pseudoliva umpquaensis, Pseudoliva unicarinata, Pseudoliva vetusta

Subtaxa: Pseudoliva funkeana funkeana Pseudoliva funkeana ornata

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Type specimen: UIMG 339. Its type locality is Ewekoro Quarry, which is in a Selandian open shallow subtidal packstone in the Ewekoro Formation of Nigeria.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Ewekoro Quarry

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