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Microdrillia trina

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Borsoniidae

Taxonomy
Microdrillia trina was named by Mansfield (1925) [DISTRIBUTION: Miocene; Trinidad and Tobago.]. Its type specimen is USNM 352624, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is USGS 9212, which is in a Miocene marine siliciclastic in Trinidad and Tobago.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
M. citrona, M. hebetika, M. infans, M. minutissima, M. robustula, M. serratula

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1925Microdrillia trina Mansfield pp. 28-29 figs. pl. 4, fig. 5
1928Microdrillia trina Woodring p. 197
1970Microdrillia trina Woodring p. 389

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
RankNameAuthor
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
orderNeogastropodaThiele 1929
superfamilyConoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyBorsoniidae(Bellardi 1875)
genusMicrodrilliaCasey 1903
speciestrina

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.

†Microdrillia trina Mansfield 1925
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Locomotion: actively mobilesuperf
Life habit: epifaunalsuperf
Diet: carnivoresuperf
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2009-09-10 08:08:14
Modified: 2009-09-10 10:08:14
Source: superf = superfamily, c = class
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Miocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pliocene or 23.03000 to 2.58800 Ma

Collections (18 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Venezuela Microdrillia trina (96484)
Middle Miocene15.97 - 11.608Trinidad and Tobago Microdrillia trina (type locality: 74921 96447 96522)
Tortonian11.62 - 7.246Panama Microdrillia trina (93061 93145 93159 93160 93171 93172 93174 93175 93177)
Tortonian11.62 - 7.246Panama (Colon) Microdrillia trina (145251 145254 145343 145344)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588Venezuela Microdrillia trina (131218)