Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae

Alternative combination: Phalium (Semicassis) louella

Full reference: R. L. Squires and D. M. Advocate. 1986. New Early Eocene Mollusks from the Orocopia Mountains, Southern California. Journal of Paleontology 60(4):851-864

Belongs to Galeodea according to A. J. W. Hendy 2020

See also Squires 2019 and Squires and Advocate 1986

Sister taxa: Doliopsis tricarinatum, Galeodea aegyptiaca, Galeodea allani, Galeodea bicatenata, Galeodea californica, Galeodea crescentensis, Galeodea depressa, Galeodea echinophora, Galeodea koureos, Galeodea megacephala, Galeodea meganosensis, Galeodea petersoni, Galeodea petrosa, Galeodea planotecta, Galeodea sutterensis, Galeodea tuberculiformis, Galeodea wylliei, Galeodea (Gomphopages) meganosensis, Galeodea (Gomphopages) millsapsi, Galeodea (Gomphopages) turneri, Galeodea (Mambrinia) nodosa, Galeodea (Mambrinia) gallica, Galeoocorys leucodoma, Cassidaria desori, Cassidaria javana, Cassidaria cheops, Cassidaria lintea, Cassidaria khaledi, Cassidaria washingtoniana

Type specimen: LACMIP 7166, a shell. Its type locality is CSUN 665, Orocopia Mountains, which is in a Ypresian offshore shale in the Maniobra Formation of California.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at CSUN 665, Orocopia Mountains

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