Gastropoda - Vetigastropoda - Cirridae

PaleoDB taxon number: 266743

Full reference: O. Haas. 1953. Mesozoic invertebrate faunas of Peru. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 101:1-328

Belongs to Hesperocirrus according to O. Haas 1953

Sister taxa: Hesperocirrus modestus, Hesperocirrus striatus, Hesperocirrus triasicus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Cerro de Pasco area, Ninacaca, loc86, which is in a Rhaetian marine limestone in Peru.

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Average measurements (in mm): shell width 5.61