Balcis conchita Keen 1943 (snail)

Gastropoda - Vanikoroidea - Eulimidae

Full reference: A. M. Keen. 1943. New mollusks from the Round Mountain Silt (Temblor) Miocene of California. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 10(2):25-60

Belongs to Balcis according to W.O. Addicott 1970

See also Keen 1943

Sister taxa: Balcis (Balcis), Balcis (Vitreolina), Balcis beaufortensis, Balcis biconica, Balcis lutzi, Balcis micans, Balcis monicensis, Balcis necropolitana, Balcis oldroydae, Balcis petrolia, Balcis tersa

Type specimen: LSJU 7538. Its type locality is LSJU loc. 2121 [Round Mountain Silt], which is in a Langhian marine siltstone in the Round Mountain Formation of California.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at LSJU loc. 2121 [Round Mountain Silt]

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