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Drillia nitrina

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae

Taxonomy

Drillia nitrina was named by Mansfield (1925) [DISTRIBUTION: Miocene; Trinidad and Tobago.]. Its type specimen is USNM 352637, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is USGS 9212, which is in a Miocene marine siliciclastic in Trinidad and Tobago.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

D. aquaensis, D. brevicauda, D. centrodes, D. coryphodes, D. crandalli, D. dipta, D. eurysoma, D. haraldi, D. henkeni, D. lapenotieri, D. microneta, D. pirabica, D. pleutonica, D. popefusiformis, D. prion, D. pycnoklosta, D. trimitrodita, D. trypanion, D. waltoniana, D. zosta, D. auriculifera

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1925	Drillia nitrina Mansfield p. 22 figs. pl. 3, fig. 3

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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	Conoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Drilliidae	(Olsson 1964)
genus	Drillia	Gray 1838
species	nitrina

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.

†Drillia nitrina Mansfield 1925

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitec

Locomotion:

actively mobilesuperf

Life habit:

epifaunalsuperf

Diet:

carnivoresuperf

Vision:

limitedc

Created:

2009-09-10 08:08:14

Modified:

2009-09-10 10:08:14

Source: superf = superfamily, c = class

References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Middle Miocene or 15.97000 to 11.60800 Ma

Collections: one only

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Middle Miocene	15.97 - 11.608	Trinidad and Tobago	Drillia nitrina (type locality: 74921)