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Nassarius karinae

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae

Taxonomy

Nassarius karinae was named by Wienrich (2001). Its type locality is Bore Lullingen 1, depth 54m, which is in a Miocene transition zone/lower shoreface siltstone in Germany.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

N. analogicus, N. coppii, N. diversus, N. gaiae, N. holsaticus, N. iberoclathratus, N. inaequalis, N. italicus, N. kikaizimanus, N. leucops, N. macrodon, N. megastoma, N. mucronatus, N. nuttalli, N. picta, N. plioholsaticus, N. semistriatus, N. syltensis, N. wienrichi, N. karoroensis, N. urupicus, N. karaganicus, N. bimaculatus, N. kiiensis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
2001	Nassarius karinae Wienrich p. 490 figs. pl. 79, fig. 3; pl. 99, figs. 1a-c, 2-5

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Gastropoda
subclass	Caenogastropoda	(Cox 1959)

Rank	Name	Author
—	Sorbeoconcha	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—	Hypsogastropoda	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorder	Latrogastropoda	Riedel 2000
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Buccinoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Nassariidae	Iredale 1916
subfamily	Nassariinae	Iredale 1916
genus	Nassarius	Duméril 1806
species	karinae

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.

†Nassarius karinae Wienrich 2001

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitec

Entire body:

yesg

Adult width:

10 to < 100g

Adult height:

10 to < 100g

Thickness:

thing

Folds:

noneg

Ribbing:

minorg

Spines:

noneg

Internal reinforcement:

noneg

Locomotion:

slow-movingg

Life habit:

semi-infaunalg

Diet:

carnivoreg

Vision:

limitedc

Created:

2009-03-16 09:57:48

Modified:

2018-03-04 20:07:33

Source: g = genus, c = class

References: Abbott and Dance 1986, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Miocene to the top of the Middle Miocene or 23.03000 to 11.60800 Ma

Collections (19 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Miocene	23.03 - 15.97	Germany (North Rhein-Westfalia)	Nassarius karinae (62882 62883)
Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene	23.03 - 11.608	Germany (North Rhein-Westfalia)	Nassarius karinae (62884)
Miocene	23.03 - 5.333	Germany (North Rhein-Westfalia)	Nassarius karinae (62899 62903 62955)
Middle Miocene	15.97 - 11.608	Germany (North Rhein-Westfalia)	Nassarius karinae (61896 61897 type locality: 61898 61900 61902 61903 61904 61905 61906 62885 62886 62887 62893)