Mellarium Waterhouse 1960 (snail)

Gastropoda - Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1960. Mellarium, a new Triassic pleurotomariid gastropod from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 3(2):271-283

Parent taxon: Pleurotomariidae according to J. B. Waterhouse 1960

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Austroworthenia, Bathrotomaria, Conotomaria, Cryptaenia, Entemnotrochus, Laevitomaria, Leptomaria, Mamoeatomaria, Mikadotrochus, Murihikua, Obornella, Ornatospira, Perotrochus, Pleurotomaria, Pleurotomariinae, Pyrgotrochus, Rasatomaria, Tahua, Talantodiscus

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Triassic of New Zealand (5 collections)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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