Gastropoda - Triphoroidea - Cerithiopsidae

Full reference: R. Rivera. 1957. Moluscos fosiles de la Formacion Paracas, Dpto. de Ica. Sociedad Geologica del Peru Primer Congreso Nacional de Geologia Anales - Parte II 32:165-219

Belongs to Cerithiopsis according to R. Rivera 1957

Sister taxa: Cerithiopsis (Alipta), Cerithiopsis (Cerithiopsis), Cerithiopsis (Laskeya), Cerithiopsis aralia, Cerithiopsis calvertensis, Cerithiopsis carmenensis, Cerithiopsis diagona, Cerithiopsis emersoni, Cerithiopsis emersonii, Cerithiopsis greenii, Cerithiopsis greggiensis, Cerithiopsis hauniensis, Cerithiopsis inopinus, Cerithiopsis mekranica, Cerithiopsis nana, Cerithiopsis subulata, Cerithiopsis tubercularis, Cerithiopsis veatchiana, Cerithiopsis vinca

Type specimen: Its type locality is Bahia Lechuza, which is in an Eocene marine sandstone in the Paracas Formation of Peru

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore