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Drillia polygonalis

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae

Taxonomy

Drillia polygonalis was named by Gardner (1948) [DISTRIBUTION: Early Pliocene; North Carolina-South Carolina]. Its type specimen is USNM 114044, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

D. aquaensis, D. brevicauda, D. centrodes, D. coryphodes, D. crandalli, D. dipta, D. eurysoma, D. haraldi, D. henkeni, D. lapenotieri, D. microneta, D. pirabica, D. pleutonica, D. popefusiformis, D. prion, D. pycnoklosta, D. trimitrodita, D. trypanion, D. waltoniana, D. zosta, D. auriculifera

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1948	Drillia polygonalis Gardner p. 269 figs. pl. 37, figs. 2, 3

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Gastropoda
subclass	Caenogastropoda	(Cox 1959)

Rank	Name	Author
—	Sorbeoconcha	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—	Hypsogastropoda	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorder	Latrogastropoda	Riedel 2000
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Conoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Drilliidae	(Olsson 1964)
genus	Drillia	Gray 1838
species	polygonalis

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.

†Drillia polygonalis Gardner 1948

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available