Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Potamididae
Alternative combination: Melanatria gesteri
Full reference: G. D. Hanna and M. C. Israelsky. 1925. Contributions to the Tertiary paleontology of Peru. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 14(2):37-75
Belongs to Hannatoma according to A. A. Olsson 1931
See also Hanna and Israelsky 1925
Sister taxa: Hannatoma emendorferi, Hannatoma tumbezia
Type specimen: CAS 1712, a shell. Its type locality is CAS Loc. 334, Punto Sal Chico [Negritos Fm], which is in an Eocene marine shale in the Negritos Formation of Peru.
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Peru (2 collections)
• Eocene of Peru (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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