Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Full reference: A. von Koenen. 1898. Nachtrag zu Ueber Fossilien der unteren Kreide am Ufer des Mungo in Kamerun. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. Neue Folge 1:49-65
Belongs to Aporrhais according to A. von Koenen 1898
Sister taxa: Aporrhais (Aporrhais), Aporrhais biangulata, Aporrhais clarendonensis, Aporrhais dingdenensis, Aporrhais drachuki, Aporrhais dutrugei, Aporrhais gracilis, Aporrhais gregaria, Aporrhais occidentalis, Aporrhais pespelecani, Aporrhais pugens, Aporrhais rapax, Aporrhais sowerbii, Aporrhais speciosa, Aporrhais uttingeriana
Type specimen: Its type locality is Elephantenbank, Mungo River, which is in a Turonian carbonate limestone in the Mungo River Formation of Cameroon
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Elephantenbank, Mungo River
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