Turritella plebeia carinata Gardner 1943 (turret shell)

Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae

Full reference: J. A. Gardner. 1943. Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina. Part 1. Pelecypoda. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 199(A):1-178

Belongs to Turritella plebeia according to L. W. Ward 1992

See also Gardner 1943

Sister taxon: Turritella plebeia plebeia

Type specimen: USNM 325453, a shell

Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Molluscan Zone 8, Claremont Manor Mbr, Eastover Fm - Sunken Meadow Creek (Miocene of Virginia)

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