Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Cryptaulacidae
Full reference: S. M. Ferrari. 2012. The genera Cryptaulax and Procerithium (Procerithiidae, Caenogastropoda) in the Early Jurassic of Patagonia, Argentina. Alcheringa 36:323-336
Belongs to Cryptaulax according to S. M. Ferrari 2012
Sister taxa: Cryptaulax abcisum, Cryptaulax armatum, Cryptaulax bittneri, Cryptaulax convexa, Cryptaulax damboreneae, Cryptaulax echinata, Cryptaulax gratum, Cryptaulax inaequelineata, Cryptaulax kulickii, Cryptaulax mutabilis, Cryptaulax protortile, Cryptaulax quenstedti, Cryptaulax rhabdocolpoides, Cryptaulax shiptonensis, Cryptaulax slatteri, Cryptaulax tilarniocensis, Cryptaulax tricuspis, Cryptaulax variformatum, Cryptaulax wawalensis
Type specimen: MPEF-PI 3508, a shell. Its type locality is LO 29, Lomas Occidentales, which is in a Pliensbachian/Toarcian coastal sandstone in the Mulanguiñeu Formation of Argentina.
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution: found only at LO 29, Lomas Occidentales
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