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Echinophoria fax

Gastropoda - Cassidae

Taxonomy
Galeodea fax was named by Tegland (1931). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCMP loc. A-730, Porter locality, which is in an Oligocene marine shale in the Porter Formation of Washington.

It was recombined as Liracassis fax by Moore (1963); it was recombined as Echinophoria fax by Durham (1942), Durham (1944), Hendy (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1931Galeodea fax Tegland
1938Galeodea fax Effinger p. 382
1942Echinophoria fax Durham p. 185
1944Echinophoria fax Durham p. 166
1963Liracassis fax Moore p. 30
2020Echinophoria fax Hendy

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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
subfamilyPhaliinaeBeu 1981
genusEchinophoriaSacco 1890
speciesfax(Tegland 1931)

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.

†Echinophoria fax Tegland 1931
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available