Tornatellaea effingeri Vokes 1939 (snail)

Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonidae

Full reference: H. E. Vokes. 1939. Molluscan faunas of the Domengine and Arroyo Hondo Formations of the California Eocene. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 38:1-246

Belongs to Tornatellaea according to H. E. Vokes 1939

Sister taxa: Tornatellaea (Ravniella), Tornatellaea bella, Tornatellaea cretacea, Tornatellaea darwini, Tornatellaea gazdzickii, Tornatellaea globulosa, Tornatellaea impressa, Tornatellaea lata, Tornatellaea matura, Tornatellaea neuquina, Tornatellaea regularis, Tornatellaea rosa, Tornatellaea simulata, Tornatellaea vacavillensis

Type specimen: UCMP 16764. Its type locality is UCMP 1817, Urruttia Canyon-Salt Creek, which is in a Ypresian deep-water shale in the Lodo Formation of California.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at UCMP 1817, Urruttia Canyon-Salt Creek

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