Cominella colemani Anderson and Hanna 1925 (true whelk)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae

Full reference: F. M. Anderson and G. D. Hanna. 1925. Fauna and stratigraphic relations of the Tejon Eocene at the type locality in Kern County, California. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 11:1-249

Belongs to Cominella according to F. M. Anderson and G. D. Hanna 1925

Sister taxa: Cominella (Cominella), Cominella (Cominula), Cominella (Eucominia), Cominella (Josepha), Cominella (Procominula), Cominella annandalei, Cominella bonnecarreri, Cominella clelandi, Cominella crassina, Cominella crozieri, Cominella douvillei, Cominella eocenica, Cominella lecontei, Cominella maculosa, Cominella pertusa, Cominella praecursor, Cominella pumila, Cominella retifera, Cominella staufti, Cominella subfilicea, Cominella supracostata

Type specimen: CAS 895. Its type locality is CAS loc. 711, Grapevine Canyon, which is in a Lutetian marine sandstone in the Tejon Formation of California.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at CAS loc. 711, Grapevine Canyon

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