Ringicula punjabensis Eames 1952 (snail)

Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ringiculidae

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 Ringicula according to F. E. Eames 1952

Sister taxa: Ringicula (Ringicula), Ringicula (Ringiculella), Ringicula (Ringiculina), Ringicula (Ringiculina) clarki, Ringicula (Ringiculocosta), Ringicula (Ringiculopsis), Ringicula acuta, Ringicula arctatoides, Ringicula blaszyki, Ringicula buccinea, Ringicula castigata, Ringicula celata, Ringicula clarki, Ringicula culbertsoni, Ringicula dalli, Ringicula discrepans, Ringicula dominicana, Ringicula minor, Ringicula mississippiensis, Ringicula nuda, Ringicula semperi, Ringicula striata, Ringicula trapaquara, Ringicula trapequara, Ringicula turgida, Ringicula varia, Ringicula ventricosa, Auricula bimarginata, Auricula miliaris, Auricula ovata, Auricula ringens, Auricula acicula, Auricula conovuliformis, Auricula cytharella, Auricula hordeola, Auricula sulcata, Auricula terebellata, Auricula miliola

Type specimen: BMNH G.68409, a shell. Its type locality is Fossil Bed F.2678, Zinda Pir, which is in a Ypresian marine shale in the Ghazij Formation of Pakistan.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of Pakistan (5 collections)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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