Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae

Full reference: D. B. K. Palmer. 1923. A fauna from the Middle Eocene shales near Vacaville, California. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 14(8):289-318

Belongs to Mangilia according to C. M. Wagner and K. H. Schilling 1923

Sister taxa: Mangelia (Mangelia), Mangelia andersoni, Mangelia angulicosta, Mangelia boschi, Mangelia branneri, Mangelia costata, Mangelia costellaria, Mangelia ecuadoriana, Mangelia guerichi, Mangelia hancocki, Mangelia heptapleura, Mangelia hesperia, Mangelia hooveri, Mangelia larga, Mangelia luellingensis, Mangelia miorugulosa, Mangelia nebula, Mangelia odovychenae, Mangelia painei, Mangelia pseudorugulosa, Mangilia (Clathromangilia), Mangilia elegantissima, Mangilia fibrata, Mangilia hamata, Mangilia interfossa, Mangilia lalonis, Mangilia maoica, Mangilia micropleura, Mangilia muricidea, Cytharella cymella, Cytharella compsacosta, Cytharella galae, Cytharella cryptopleura, Cytharella elevata, Cytharella chariessa, Cytharella limta, Cytharella isabellae, Cytharella barbadoides, Cytharella limata

Type specimen: UCMP 30609, a shell. Its type locality is UCMP 3573 - NW of Vacaville, which is in a Ypresian offshore shale in California.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at UCMP 3573 - NW of Vacaville

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