Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
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 Motyris according to F. E. Eames 1952
Sister taxon: Motyris aralica
Type specimen: BMNH G.68510, a shell. Its type locality is Domanda, Dera Ismail Khan District, which is in an Eocene marine horizon in Pakistan.
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of Pakistan (4 collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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