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Tritonium martinezensis

Gastropoda - Ranellidae

Taxonomy
Tritonium martinezensis was named by Dickerson (1914). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCMP 1556, which is in a Paleocene marine horizon in the Martinez Formation of California.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
T. fenestratum, T. maculosus, T. obscurus, T. beccari, T. chlorostomus
Entered
by P. Holroyd on 2017-12-18; modified by A. Hendy on 2018-07-14

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1914Tritonium martinezensis Dickerson p. 146 figs. plate 15, fig. 2

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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)
familyRanellidaeGray 1854
subfamilyCymatiinaeIredale 1913
genusTritoniumGistel 1848
speciesmartinezensis

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.

†Tritonium martinezensis Dickerson 1914
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available