Bellatara narica Vredenburg 1925 (cerith snail)

Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae

Alternative combination: Cerithium naricum

Full reference: E. Vredenburg. 1925. Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Cephalopoda, Opisthobranchiata, Siphonostomata. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 50(1):1-350

Belongs to Bellatara according to M. Harzhauser et al. 2009

See also Azzaroli 1958 and Vredenburg 1925

Sister taxa: Bellatara ankaraensis, Bellatara gomphoceras, Bellatara lozoueti, Bellatara palaeochroma, Cerithium (Bellatara) janus

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Oligocene of Pakistan (1 collection), Somalia (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.