Tephlon Popenoe 1983 (snail)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae

Full reference: W. P. Popenoe. 1983. Cretaceous Aporrhaidae from California: Aporrhainae and Arrhoginae. Journal of Paleontology 57(4):742-765

Parent taxon: Pugnellinae according to H. A. Kollmann 2009

See also Popenoe 1983 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Bizarrus, Gymnarus, Lispodesthes, Perustrombus, Pugnellus, Pyktes, Torgnellus, Tundora

Subtaxa: Tephlon tumidus

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Type: Pugnellus tumidus

Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Quiriquina (Cretaceous of Chile)

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