Cerithiopsis punjabensis Eames 1952 (snail)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Cerithiopsidae

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 Cerithiopsis according to F. E. Eames 1952

Sister taxa: Cerithiopsis (Alipta), Cerithiopsis (Cerithiopsida), Cerithiopsis (Cerithiopsidella), Cerithiopsis (Cerithiopsina), Cerithiopsis (Cerithiopsis), Cerithiopsis (Heterocerithiopsis), Cerithiopsis (Laskeya), Cerithiopsis aldrichi, Cerithiopsis alternata, Cerithiopsis andersoni, Cerithiopsis aralia, Cerithiopsis bolingerensis, Cerithiopsis calvertensis, Cerithiopsis carmenensis, Cerithiopsis diagona, Cerithiopsis discreta, Cerithiopsis emersoni, Cerithiopsis emersonii, Cerithiopsis excelsus, Cerithiopsis fasteni, Cerithiopsis gemmulosa, Cerithiopsis greenii, Cerithiopsis greggiensis, Cerithiopsis hauniensis, Cerithiopsis inopinus, Cerithiopsis jacksonensis, Cerithiopsis lechuzaensis, Cerithiopsis llajasensis, Cerithiopsis meeki, Cerithiopsis mekranica, Cerithiopsis nana, Cerithiopsis newcombei, Cerithiopsis orovillensis, Cerithiopsis palmerae, Cerithiopsis pedroana, Cerithiopsis pustuloclathrata, Cerithiopsis stantoni, Cerithiopsis stejnegeri, Cerithiopsis subulata, Cerithiopsis tubercularis, Cerithiopsis veatchiana, Cerithiopsis vinca, Cerithiopsis williamsoni

Type specimen: BMNH G.68164, a shell. Its type locality is Fossil Bed F.2679, Zinda Pir, which is in a Ypresian marine shale in the Ghazij Formation of Pakistan.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of Pakistan (1 collection)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Pakistan (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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