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Turritella variata lorenzana

Gastropoda - Turritellidae

Taxonomy
Turritella lorenzana was named by Wagner and Schilling (1923) [DISTRIBUTION: Late Eocene-Early Oligocene; California.]. Its type specimen is UCMP 11424, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Univ. Cal. Loc. 3217 - Pleito Fm, which is in an Oligocene coastal sandstone/sandstone in the Pleito Formation of California.

It was recombined as Turritella variata lorenzana by Merriam (1941).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1923Turritella lorenzana Wagner and Schilling p. 257 figs. pl. 50, fig. 11
1941Turritella variata lorenzana Merriam p. 99 figs. Plate 18, figure 3 ; plate 19, figures 9, 12, 13, 14

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
RankNameAuthor
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
superfamilyCerithioidea(Férussac 1819)
familyTurritellidaeLovén 1847
subfamilyTurritellinaeLovén 1847
genusTurritellaLamarck 1799
speciesvariataConrad 1857
subspecieslorenzana()

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.

Turritella variata lorenzana Wagner and Schilling 1923
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Diagnosis
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