Pseudomelania colusaensis Anderson 1958 (snail)

Gastropoda - Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae

Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378

Belongs to Pseudomelania according to F. M. Anderson 1958

Sister taxa: Pseudomelania (Oonia), Pseudomelania (Rhabdoconcha), Pseudomelania aonis, Pseudomelania feruglioi, Pseudomelania frankei, Pseudomelania gaudryi, Pseudomelania goniophana, Pseudomelania hagenowi, Pseudomelania miles, Pseudomelania muensteri, Pseudomelania paucispira, Pseudomelania salenasensis, Pseudomelania subsimilis, Pseudomelania subterebra, Pseudomelania subula, Pseudomelania trochiformis

Type specimen: Its type locality is CAS 28323, Del Puerto Creek, which is in a Santonian marine siliciclastic in the Panoche Formation of California

Ecology: epifaunal

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of United States (4: California, Oregon collections)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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