Nassa tinosa Pilsbry and Olsson 1941 (true whelk)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae

Full reference: H. A. Pilsbry and A.A. Olsson. 1941. A Pliocene fauna from Western Ecuador. Proceedings of the Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 93:1-79

Belongs to Nassa according to H. A. Pilsbry and A.A. Olsson 1941

Sister taxa: Nassa (Amycla), Nassa (Eione), Nassa (Hebra), Nassa (Telasco), Nassa calvertensis, Nassa cara, Nassa columbelloides, Nassa crassigranosa, Nassa eocenica, Nassa fueguina, Nassa greensboroensis, Nassa gubernatoria, Nassa marylandica, Nassa microstoma, Nassa miser, Nassa monensis, Nassa pacis, Nassa packardi, Nassa palta, Nassa peraltoides, Nassa plicatella, Nassa reussi, Nassa socialis, Nassa sublirella

Type specimen: Its type locality is Zone B (lower) - Jama Formation, which is in a Pliocene offshore sandstone in the Jama Formation of Ecuador

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Zone B (lower) - Jama Formation

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