Hemifusus montensis Cox 1930 (snail)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae

Full reference: L. R. Cox. 1930. The fossil fauna of the Samana Range and some neighbouring areas: Part VIII. The Mollusca of the Hangu Shales. Memoirs of the Geological Suvery of India 14

Belongs to Hemifusus according to L. R. Cox 1930

Sister taxa: Fusus (Hemifusus) cooperii, Hemifusus (Hemifusus), Hemifusus arnoldi, Hemifusus dalli, Hemifusus lewisiana, Hemifusus lincolnensis, Hemifusus sopenahensis, Hemifusus tejonensis, Hemifusus waringi, Volema (Hemifusus) ternatanus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Hangu Shales - Samana Range, Pakistan, which is in a Selandian/Thanetian marginal marine shale in the Hangu Formation of Pakistan

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Hangu Shales - Samana Range, Pakistan

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