Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Parent taxon: Turritellinae according to W. D. Allmon 1996
See also Beu et al. 1990, Sepkoski 2002 and Stilwell and Zinsmeister 1992
Sister taxa: Archimediella, Banzarecolpus, Callostracum, Coeloconica, Colpospira, Gazameda, Hataiella, Idaella, Maoricolpus, Neohaustator, Nipponocolpus, Oligodia, Reymentella, Sechuritella, Spirocolpus, Tachyrhynchus, Tropicolpus, Turritella, Wyatella, Wyattella, Zaria, Zeacolpus, Kamchatkella, Armatus
Subtaxa: Colposigma capitanea Colposigma euthenia Colposigma gairi Colposigma imparicincta Colposigma mesalia Colposigma plebeia
Type: Colposigma mesalia
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of Antarctica (11 collections), New Zealand (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Australia (1)
• Paleocene of Australia (3), New Zealand (2)
Total: 18 collections including 21 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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