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Discohelix mariae

Gastropoda - Discohelicidae

Taxonomy

Discohelix mariae was named by Gemmellaro (1911). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Rocche Rosse, near Galati, which is in a Pliensbachian carbonate limestone in Italy.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

D. cooki, D. cotswaldiae, D. didimtuensis, D. douvillei, D. dundriensis, D. elegantulum, D. martinianum, D. parvanodosa, D. planus, D. pontileviensis, D. pulchior, D. pulchrior, D. subaequalis, D. thevenini, D. sinistra, D. sinsitra, D. subequalis

Entered

by M. Clapham on 2015-10-03

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1911	Discohelix mariae Gemmellaro p. 221 figs. Pl 9, figs 15,16

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca

Rank	Name	Author
class	Gastropoda
subclass	Vetigastropoda	(Salvini-Plawen 1980)
superfamily	Cirroidea
family	Discohelicidae	Schröder 1995
genus	Discohelix	Dunker 1847
species	mariae

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.

†Discohelix mariae Gemmellaro 1911

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available