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Exilia fausta

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Ptychatractidae

Taxonomy
Exilia fausta was named by Anderson and Hanna (1925). Its type specimen is CAS 820 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is CAS loc. 245, Grapevine Canyon, which is in an Eocene marginal marine sandstone/shale in the Tejon Formation of California.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
E. crassistria, E. dalli, E. dicersoni, E. narymensis, E. waihaoensis, E. wellmani

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1925Exilia fausta Anderson and Hanna p. 57 figs. pl. 8, figs. 8, 9
1940Exilia fausta Bentson p. 214 figs. Pl. 3, fig. 14

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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
orderNeogastropodaThiele 1929
superfamilyTurbinelloidea
familyPtychatractidae
genusExiliaConrad 1860
speciesfausta

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.

†Exilia fausta Anderson and Hanna 1925
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available