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Turritella petersoni

Gastropoda - Turritellidae

Taxonomy
Turritella petersoni was named by Merriam (1941) [TYPE LOCALITY: Coulsa County, California (Cenomanian-Early Turonian). TYPE REPOSITORY: CAS, California.]. Its type specimen is CAS 1291.06, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is CAS Loc. 1291, Peterson Ranch, which is in a Cenomanian offshore shale in the Antelope Formation of California.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1941Turritella petersoni Merriam pp. 64-65 figs. pl. 1, fig.10
1958Turritella petersoni Anderson p. 153 figs. Plate 21, figure 11
2006Turritella petersoni Squires and Saul p. 53

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
superfamilyCerithioidea(Férussac 1819)
familyTurritellidaeLovén 1847
subfamilyTurritellinaeLovén 1847
genusTurritellaLamarck 1799
speciespetersoni

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Turritella petersoni Merriam 1941
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Entire body: yesg
Adult length: 10 to < 100g
Adult width: 10 to < 100g
Adult height: 10 to < 100g
Thickness: thing
Folds: noneg
Ribbing: minorg
Spines: noneg
Internal reinforcement: noneg
Locomotion: facultatively mobileg
Life habit: semi-infaunalg
Diet: suspension feederg
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2004-02-29 18:26:02
Modified: 2018-03-04 19:51:38
Source: g = genus, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Cenomanian to the top of the Turonian or 100.50000 to 89.80000 Ma

Collections (10 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9USA (California) Turritella petersoni (type locality: 69609 69610 220368 220369)
Turonian93.9 - 89.8USA (California) Turritella petersoni (44196 44240 69615 69616 69620)
Middle Turonian93.5 - 89.3USA (California) Turritella petersoni (215610)