Gastropoda - Neritoidea - Naticopsidae

Full reference: R. L. Batten and W.L. Stokes. 1986. Early Triassic gastropods from the Sinbad Member of the Moenkopi Formation, San Rafael Swell, Utah. American Museum Novitates 2864:1-33

Belongs to Vernelia according to R. L. Batten and W.L. Stokes 1986

Sister taxa: Hologyra (Vernelia) dissimilis, Hologyra (Vernelia) vincta, Naticopsis (Vernelia) sublimneiformis, Vernelia crassilabellum, Vernelia subimpressa

Type specimen: AMNH 42981. Its type locality is AMNH3026, Windowblind Butte, San Rafael Swell, which is in a Smithian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal packstone in the Moenkopi Formation of Utah.

Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 3.73