Cassianastraea stanleyia Bandel 1994 (snail)

Gastropoda - Trochoidea - Turbinidae

Full reference: K. Bandel. 1994. Comparison of Upper Triassic and Lower Jurassic gastropods from the Peruvian Andes (Pucara Group) and the Alps (Cassian Formation). Palaeontographica Abteilung A 233:127-160

Belongs to Cassianastraea according to K. Bandel 1994

Sister taxon: Bandelastraea damon

Type specimen: UMIP 22395. Its type locality is 84-CH-4, Chaquipuquio, which is in a Norian carbonate limestone in the Chambara Formation of Peru.

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at 84-CH-4, Chaquipuquio

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