Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Thiaridae
Full reference: B. L. Clark and C. A. Anderson. 1938. Wheatland Formation and its relation to Early Tertiary andesites in the Sierra Nevada. Geological Society Of America Bulletin 49:931-956
Belongs to Thiara according to B. L. Clark and C. A. Anderson 1938
Sister taxa: Thiara (Balanocochlis), Thiara (Plotia), Thiara (Sermyla), Thiara (Setaeara), Thiara scabra, Thiara smartsvillensis, Thiara tjemoroensis, Melania hunteri, Melania obovata, Melania herklotsi, Melania vaderensis, Melania texata, Melania hoernesi, Melania concentrica, Melania polita, Melania formosa, Melania taylori, Melania marginata, Melania fragilis, Melania tenuiplica, Melania acutestriata, Melania abbreviata, Melania tenuis, Melania semiplicata, Melania miikensis, Melania buccinalis, Melania dunkeri, Melania claibornensis, Melania hordacea, Melania dubia, Melania plicatula, Melania plieningeri, Melania fettkei, Melania longissima, Melania alberti, Melania laevigata, Melania schlotheimii, Melania nitida, Melania plicata, Melania clavula, Melania partschii, Melania triticea, Melania canicularis, Melania inquinata, Melania packardi, Melania strigillata, Melania semistriata, Melania bullia, Melania decussata, Melania blainvillii, Melania multistriata
Type specimen: UCMP 11085. Its type locality is UCMP loc. A1889, Wheatland, which is in a Priabonian coastal conglomerate/sandstone in the Wheatland Formation of California.
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution: found only at UCMP loc. A1889, Wheatland
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