Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) superba Willett 1937 (snail)

Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae

Full reference: G. Willett. 1937. An Upper Pleistocene fauna from the Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles County, California. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 8(30):379-406

Belongs to Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) according to G. Willett 1937

Sister taxa: Pyrgiscus antestriatus, Pyrgiscus auricoma, Pyrgiscus himertus, Pyrgiscus laminatus, Pyrgiscus latifundius, Pyrgiscus moerchi, Pyrgiscus tenuiculus, Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) adusta, Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) agrestis, Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) almo, Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) bravoensis, Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) canfieldi, Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) hormigacuesta, Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) ista, Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) sanctorum, Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) senistriata, Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) vexativa, Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) weldi

Type specimen: USNM 163261

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at LACMIP loc. 59, Lincoln Avenue deposit, Playa del Rey (Quaternary of California)

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