Motyris pseudoaralica Eames 1952 (turret shell)

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

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