Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Full reference: W. Loel and W. H. Corey. 1932. The Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene of California. I. Paleontology. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 22(3):31-410
Belongs to Turritella inezana according to C. W. Merriam 1941
See also Loel and Corey 1932
Sister taxa: Turritella inezana altacorona, Turritella inezana equistriata, Turritella inezana hoffmannii, Turritella inezana pertumida, Turritella inezana pervulgata, Turritella inezana santana, Turritella inezana sespeensis
Type specimen: UCMP 31668, a shell. Its type locality is UCMP loc. A594, Sespe Creek, which is in a Miocene coastal horizon in the Vaqueros Formation of California.
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Mexico (1 collection), United States (13: California)
Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence