Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Alternative spelling: Turritella (Mesalia)
Synonym: Stigmesalia Finlay and Marwick 1937
Parent taxon: Pareorinae according to R. L. Squires and L. R. Saul 2007
See also Abbass 1967, Adegoke 1977, Allison 1955, Allmon 1996, Harris and Palmer 1947, Moneer et al. 2024, Palmer and Brann 1966, Perrilliat et al. 2006, Sarr et al. 2024, Sepkoski 2002, Stenzel and Turner 1940, Stilwell et al. 2004, Titova 1994, White 1889 and Wood 1879
Sister taxa: Batillona, Craginia, Motyris, Neodiastoma, Pareora, Sigmesalia, Tachyrhynchella, Woodsalia
Subtaxa: Mesalia (Mesalia) Mesalia akinkugbei Mesalia akinolae Mesalia alabamiensis Mesalia bassiounii Mesalia brevialis Mesalia claibornensis Mesalia clarki Mesalia concava Mesalia fallockensis Mesalia ferialae Mesalia gigantia Mesalia goshourensis Mesalia hofana Mesalia inca Mesalia lincolnensis Mesalia locardi Mesalia martinezensis Mesalia minuta Mesalia pagoda Mesalia paleocenica Mesalia passi Mesalia pedinogyra Mesalia pumila Mesalia rathbuni Mesalia reymenti Mesalia rogersi Mesalia salvani Mesalia shatai Mesalia tricarinata Mesalia vetusta Mesalia virginiae Mesalia zitteli
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (1 collection), Morocco (2), Spain (1)
• Miocene of Brazil (6), Japan (3)
• Oligocene of United States (2: Mississippi, Washington)
• Eocene of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Egypt (9), France (2), Japan (2), Mexico (5), Poland (2), Saudi Arabia (1), United States (109: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Mali (1), United States (1: South Carolina)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (5), Denmark (1), Egypt (1), Germany (1), Greenland (3), Mexico (8), Nigeria (1), Pakistan (1), Poland (4), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (127: Alabama, Arkansas, California, California , Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Brazil (1), Egypt (3), France (1), Gabon (3), Germany (1), Iran (3), Madagascar (3), Mexico (1), Senegal (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (2: Texas)
• Jurassic of Italy (2)
Total: 327 collections including 362 occurrences
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