Pseudoliva inornata Dickerson 1915 (true whelk)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae

Full reference: R. E. Dickerson. 1915. Fauna of the Type Tejon: Its relation to the Cowlitz Phase of the Tejon Group of Washington. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 5(3):33-98

Belongs to Pseudoliva according to R. E. Dickerson 1915

See also Anderson and Hanna 1925, Hanna 1927, Squires 1989 and Squires 2001

Sister taxa: Pseudoliva (Fusopsis), Pseudoliva adelkei, Pseudoliva binodosa, Pseudoliva bocaserpentis, Pseudoliva coronaria, Pseudoliva elegans, Pseudoliva funkeana, Pseudoliva guppyi, Pseudoliva laudunensis, Pseudoliva leutweini, Pseudoliva lutulenta, Pseudoliva modesta, Pseudoliva monilis, Pseudoliva packardi, Pseudoliva perspectiva, Pseudoliva praetermissa, Pseudoliva reticulata, Pseudoliva rogersi, Pseudoliva serrata, Pseudoliva thielei, Pseudoliva tuberculifera, Pseudoliva umpquaensis, Pseudoliva unicarinata, Pseudoliva vetusta

Type specimen: UCMP 11053, a shell. Its type locality is UCMP loc. 458, Grapevine Creek, which is in a Bartonian marine sandstone/shale in the Tejon Formation of California.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (4: California, Washington collections)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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