ammonites
Pleuroploca olssoni Anderson 1929 (snail)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae

Alternative combination: Fasciolaria olssoni

Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1929. Marine Miocene and related deposits of North Colombia. Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences 18(4):73-213

Belongs to Pleuroploca according to B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva 2010

Sister taxa: Fasciolaria (Pleuroploca) laeviuscula, Pleuroploca cristata, Pleuroploca cryptoploca, Pleuroploca filamentosa, Pleuroploca gorgasiana, Pleuroploca granosa, Pleuroploca macdonaldi, Pleuroploca rugata, Pleuroploca trapezium, Pleuroploca turamensis

Type specimen: CAS 4617, a shell. Its type locality is CAS Loc. 267 (horizon P), Tubará Mtn [Tubará Fm], which is in a Miocene marine siliciclastic in the Tubará Formation of Colombia.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell 79.0 x 57.0