Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
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 Turricula (Pleurofusia) according to F. E. Eames 1952
Sister taxa: Pleurofusia (Cruziturricula), Pleurofusia collaris, Pleurofusia dowlingi, Pleurofusia fluctuosa, Pleurofusia fresnoensis, Pleurofusia ladrilloensis, Pleurofusia raricostata, Pleurofusia vicksburgensis, Pleurotoma (Pleurofusia) longirostropsis, Surcula (Pleurofusia) feddeni, Surcula (Pleurofusia) fusus, Surcula (Pleurofusia) phasma, Surcula (Pleurofusia) scala, Turricula (Pleurofusia) danvicola, Turricula (Pleurofusia) obliquinodosa, Turricula (Pleurofusia) subservata
Type specimen: BMNHG.68394, a shell. Its type locality is Fossil Bed F.1986, Rakhi Nala, which is in a Bartonian marine shale in the Drazinda Formation of Pakistan.
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Fossil Bed F.1986, Rakhi Nala
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