Nassa packardi Weaver 1912 (true whelk)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae

Full reference: C. E. Weaver. 1912. A preliminary report on the Tertiary paleontology of western Washington. Washington Geological Survey Bulletin 15:1-80

Belongs to Nassa according to C. E. Weaver 1912

Sister taxa: Nassa (Amycla), Nassa (Eione), Nassa (Hebra), Nassa (Telasco), Nassa calvertensis, Nassa cara, Nassa columbelloides, Nassa crassigranosa, Nassa fueguina, Nassa greensboroensis, Nassa gubernatoria, Nassa marylandica, Nassa microstoma, Nassa miser, Nassa monensis, Nassa pacis, Nassa palta, Nassa peraltoides, Nassa plicatella, Nassa reussi, Nassa socialis, Nassa sublirella, Nassa tinosa

Type specimen: Its type locality is UW 1, Cowlitz Formation, which is in a Bartonian marine horizon in the Cowlitz Formation of Washington

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at UW 1, Cowlitz Formation

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