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Voluta kirbyi

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae

Taxonomy
Voluta kirbyi was named by Merriam and Turner (1937). Its type specimen is UCMP 33694 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCMP loc. A-1315, Fenn Ranch, west of Winters, which is in a Ypresian submarine fan shale in the Capay Formation of California.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Voluta kirbyi Merriam and Turner p. 103 figs. Pl. 5, Figs. 3, 4

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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
superfamilyMuricoideade Costa 1776
familyVolutidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyVolutinaeRafinesque 1815
genusVolutaLinnaeaus 1758
specieskirbyi

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.

†Voluta kirbyi Merriam and Turner 1937
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Diagnosis
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