Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Alternative combination: Hemifusus volutaeformis
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 Tritonalia according to F. M. Anderson and G. D. Hanna 1925
See also Dickerson 1915
Sister taxa: Purpura (Tritonalia) vindobonensis, Tritonalia dorrancei, Tritonalia quilonica, Tritonalia suborbiculata, Tritonalia yneziana
Type specimen: UCMP 11056, a shell. Its type locality is UCMP 452, Grapevine Canyon, which is in an Eocene marginal marine sandstone/shale in the Tejon Formation of California.
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at UCMP 452, Grapevine Canyon
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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