Melanella indicaformis Devries 2019 (snail)

Gastropoda - Vanikoroidea - Eulimidae

Full reference: T. J. Devries. 2019. Early Paleogene brackish-water molluscs from the Caballas Formation of the East Pisco Basin (Southern Peru). Journal of Natural History 53(25-26):1533-1584

Belongs to Melanella according to T. J. Devries 2019

Sister taxa: Melanella (Melanella), Melanella (Polygyreulima), Melanella arnoldi, Melanella badenia, Melanella bolivarensis, Melanella coalingana, Melanella conoidea, Melanella dufresnei, Melanella eborea, Melanella fossilis, Melanella jacksonensis, Melanella jamaicensis, Melanella kaiparaensis, Melanella karsteni, Melanella migrans, Melanella seymourensis, Melanella thersites, Melanella waikomitica

Type specimen: UWBM 107617, a shell. Its type locality is B8769, which is in a Ypresian coastal sandstone in Peru.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of Peru (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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