Pleuroliria oregonensis Hickman 1976 (turrid)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae

Full reference: C. J. Hickman. 1976. Bathyal gastropods of the family Turridae in the Early Oligocene Keasey Formation in Oregon, with a review of some deep-water genera in the Paleocene of the Eastern Pacific. Bulletins of American Paleontology 70(292):1-119

Belongs to Pleuroliria according to C. J. Hickman 1976

See also Hickman 1980

Sister taxa: Pleuroliria jacksonella, Pleuroliria waynensis, Pleurotoma (Pleuroliria) supramirifica

Type specimen: USNM 216457. Its type locality is Columbia (USGS 15267) - Hickman (1980), which is in a Priabonian deep-water siltstone/mudstone in the Keasey Formation of Oregon.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Oregon collection)

• Eocene of United States (5: Oregon)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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