Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae

Full reference: D. B. K. Palmer. 1923. A fauna from the Middle Eocene shales near Vacaville, California. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 14(8):289-318

Belongs to Turbonilla according to D. B. K. Palmer 1923

Sister taxa: Rissoa (Turbonilla) gracilior, Turbonilla (Lancea), Turbonilla (Mormula), Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus), Turbonilla (Pyrgolidium), Turbonilla (Sulcurturbonilla), Turbonilla (Terebronilla), Turbonilla (Tragula), Turbonilla (Turbonilla), Turbonilla acicula, Turbonilla aepynota, Turbonilla alpina, Turbonilla arnoldi, Turbonilla asser, Turbonilla buttoni, Turbonilla cancellata, Turbonilla caroliniana, Turbonilla cuevensis, Turbonilla exarata, Turbonilla filosa, Turbonilla gracillima, Turbonilla hemphilli, Turbonilla hypolispa, Turbonilla internodula, Turbonilla interrupta, Turbonilla kernensis, Turbonilla kraussi, Turbonilla letzia, Turbonilla levis, Turbonilla lineata, Turbonilla madrynensis, Turbonilla major, Turbonilla marshensis, Turbonilla mumia, Turbonilla ornata, Turbonilla quinquestriata, Turbonilla rixtae, Turbonilla smithi, Turbonilla speira, Turbonilla stearnsii, Turbonilla striata, Turbonilla stylina, Turbonilla subcoronata, Turbonilla subulata, Turbonilla terebra, Turbonilla torquata, Turbonilla valdezi, Turbonilla zekelii

Type specimen: UCMP 30599, a shell. Its type locality is UCMP 3573 - NW of Vacaville, which is in a Ypresian offshore shale in California.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at UCMP 3573 - NW of Vacaville

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