Gastropoda - Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
Full reference: F. E. Eames. 1952. A contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India: C. The description of the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda from standard sections in the Rakhi Nala and Zindar Pir areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 236:1-168
Belongs to Gyroscala according to F. E. Eames 1952
Sister taxa: Cirsotrema (Gyroscala) stueri, Epitonium (Gyroscala) barkerianum, Epitonium (Gyroscala) effingeri, Epitonium (Gyroscala) lycocephalum
Type specimen: BMNH G.68172, a shell. Its type locality is Fossil Bed F.2733, Zinda Pir, which is in a Lutetian marine shale in the Domanda Formation of Pakistan.
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Fossil Bed F.2733, Zinda Pir
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