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Typhis (Typhina) mississippiensis

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

Taxonomy
Typhis (Typhina) mississippiensis was named by Gertman (1969). Its type specimen is USNM 646213, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is TU 226 - Hiwannee [Red Bluff Clay], which is in an Oligocene marine claystone in the Red Bluff Clay Formation of Mississippi.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
T. alatus, T. hebetatus, T. japonicus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1969Typhis (Typhina) mississippiensis Gertman p. 149 figs. pl. 1, figs. 2a, b

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
RankNameAuthor
—Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
orderNeogastropodaThiele 1929
superfamilyMuricoideade Costa 1776
familyMuricidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyTyphinaeCossmann 1903
genusTyphisJousseaume 1880
subgenusTyphina
speciesmississippiensis

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available