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Cassidaria cheops

Gastropoda - Cassidae

Taxonomy
Cassidaria cheops was named by Abbass (1967) [DISTRIBUTION: Late Eocene; Egypt.]. Its type specimen is G. 440, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
C. truncata

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1967Cassidaria cheops Abbass p. 81 figs. pl. 14, figs. 6-7

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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
superfamilyTonnoidea(Suter 1913)
familyCassidaeLatreille 1825
subfamilyCassinaeLatreille 1825
genusCassidariaLink 1807
speciescheops

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.

†Cassidaria cheops Abbass 1967
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available