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Latest Cretaceous and early Tertiary Tudiclidae and Melongenidae (Gastropoda) from the Pacific Slope of North America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Louella R. Saul
Louella R. Saul*
Affiliation:
Earth Sciences Division, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007
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Abstract

Four species belonging in Tudiclidae and one in Melongenidae have been confused with perissityids. The new genus Rapopsis is proposed for a tudiclid species, R. joseana n. sp. of early Maastrichtian age. Three other tudiclid species may belong in the Tethyan genus Pyropsis, P. fantozzii n. sp. of early to middle Paleocene age, P. striata (Stanton, 1896) of later Paleocene age, and ?P. gabbi (Stanton, 1896) probably of early to middle Paleocene age. The melongenid genus Protobusycon, represented by P. judithae n. sp. of late Paleocene age, has not previously been recognized in eastern Pacific faunas.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 62 , Issue 6 , November 1988 , pp. 880 - 889
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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