Ptychocerithium shamukum Banerjee and Halder 2024 (cerith snail)

Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae

Full reference: S. Banerjee and K. Halder. 2024. A new caenogastropod assemblage from the early Eocene of the Cambay Basin, western India, and its palaeoenvironmental implications. Papers in Palaeontology 10(5)

Belongs to Ptychocerithium according to S. Banerjee and K. Halder 2024

Sister taxa: Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) ansuriensis, Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) archiaci, Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) haimei, Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) hassani, Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) ighinai, Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) nanggulanense, Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) plicatoligocenica, Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) pseudocorrugatum, Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) rostratum, Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) rude, Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) tricingulatum, Ptychocerithium perlamellosum, Ptychocerithium turritoplicatum

Type specimen: PG/CG/Cr34, a shell

Ecology: epifaunal herbivore

Distribution: found only at MLS5 Cambay Shale Mangrol Mine (Eocene of India)

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