Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Full reference: F. E. Eames. 1952. A contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India: C. The description of the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda from standard sections in the Rakhi Nala and Zindar Pir areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 236:1-168
Belongs to Lyria according to M. W. A. Iqbal 1973
See also Eames 1952
Sister taxa: Lyria (Harpella), Lyria (Harpeola), Lyria (Indolyria), Lyria (Lyria), Lyria (Pseudolyria), Lyria acuticostulata, Lyria anceps, Lyria andersoni, Lyria antarctica, Lyria branderi, Lyria busera, Lyria carolinensis, Lyria coquillensis, Lyria craticulata, Lyria dalli, Lyria decora, Lyria gabrielensis, Lyria gemmata, Lyria goldfussi, Lyria hannibali, Lyria harpula, Lyria lamellatoplicata, Lyria madrakahensis, Lyria mansfieldi, Lyria mississippiensis, Lyria mitraeformis, Lyria musicinoides, Lyria nucleus, Lyria pattersonia, Lyria peruviana, Lyria sabulosa, Lyria samanaensis, Lyria sihesurensis, Lyria silicata, Lyria vaughani, Lyria wilcoxiana, Lyria zelandica, Otocheilus mississippiensis, Dallivoluta surinamensis
Type specimen: BMNH G.68306, a shell. Its type locality is Fossil Bed F.2734, Zinda Pir, which is in a Lutetian carbonate limestone in the Domanda Formation of Pakistan.
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Pakistan (2 collections)
• Paleocene of Pakistan (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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