Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Pachychilidae
This is a freshwater genus.
Full reference: W. P. Woodring. 1973. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (additions to gastropods, scaphopods, pelecypods: Nuculidae to Malleidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(E):453-539
Parent taxon: Pachychilidae according to F. P. Wesselingh 2006
See also Sepkoski 2002, Wesselingh et al. 2006 and Woodring 1973
Sister taxa: Anaplocamidae, Eginea, Faunus, Jponsia, Melanatria, Moniquia, Paludomus, Tinnyea
Subtaxa: Charadreon eucosmius Charadreon glabrum Charadreon intermedius Charadreon leptus
Type: Charadreon leptus
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Miocene of Colombia (5 collections), Peru (4)
• Eocene of Panama (1), Peru (1)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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